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STEPHEN TRACHT 

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JEHOVAH 

AND OTHER 

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STEPHEN TRACHT 

A FOLLOWER OF 
GOD JEHOVAH. 




. ... ... . Enabled to. talk with many Gods. 

**•«*• ***Have had various phases of mediumships. 



A medium when eight years old. 



WHITHER AM I GOING? 



1 8 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the 
Lord- 

Isaiah i : 18. 



yea, the time cometh, that whosoever 
killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 

St. John 16 : 2. 



3 For the time will come when they will not endure 
sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they 
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 

II Timothy 4:3, 



21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 

/ Thessalonians 5 : 21 



WHITHER AM I GOING? 



2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he 
taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he 
purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 

St. John 15 : 2. 



7 Behold, let us love one another: for love is of 
God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and 

knoweth God. 

/ John 4 : 7. 



17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and 
doeth it not, to him it is sin. 

James 4 : 17. 



7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye 
shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 

St. John is : 7. 



WHITHER AM I GOING? 



13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, 
he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak 
of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he 
speak: and he will show you things to come. 

St. John 16 : ij. 



26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach 
you all things, and bring all things to your remem- 
brance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 

St. John 14. : 26. 



27 But the anointing which ye have received of 
him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man 
teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of 
all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it 
hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. 

/ John 2 : 27. 



WHITHER AM I GOING? 



9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, 
which did prophecy. 

Acts 21 : p. 



6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are 
perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the 
princes of this world, that come to nought: 

/ Corinthians 2 : 6. 



Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 

Exodus 20: j. 



12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this 
night, and will smile all the firstborn in the land of 
Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods 
of Egypt I will execute judgment: 1 atn the Lord. 

Exodus 12 : 12. 



WHITHER AM I GOING? 



32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor 
with their gods. 

Exodus 23:32. 



15 f The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a 
Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like 
unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 

Deuteronomy 18 : rj. 



33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make 
with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the 
Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and 
write it in. their hearts; and will be their God, and they 
shall be my people. 

34 And they shall teach no more every man his 
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know 
the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least 
of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for 
I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their 
sin no more. 

Jeremiah 31:33-34- 



WHITHER AM I GOING? 



4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: 
and they were talking with Jesus. 

St. Mark 9:4. 



6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to 
them that are dead, that they might be judged accord- 
ing to men in the flesh, but live according to God in 
the spirit. 

/ Peter 4 : 6. 



12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that belie veth 
on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater 
works than these shall he do; 

St. John 14 : 12. 



9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that 
were of the Pharisees* part arose, and strove, saying, 
We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel 
hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. 

Acts 23 ; g. 



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9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending 
with the devil, (he disputed about the body of Moses,) 
durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but 
said, The Lord rebuke thee. 

Jude 9. 



2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for there- 
by some have entertained angels unawares. 

Hebrews 13 : 2. 



44 And all that believed were together, and had all 
things common; 

45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted 
them to all men, as every man had need. 

Acts 2 : 44, 4j. 



28 If Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to 
all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made 
you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which he 
hath purchased with his own blood. 

Acts 20:28. 



WHITHER AM I GOING? 



5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather 
that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth 
than he that speaketh with tongues, except he in- 
terpret, that the church may receive edifying. 

/ Corinthians 14:5. 



3 Wherefore I give you to understand that no man 
speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: 
and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by 
the Holy Ghost. 

/ Corinthians 12:3. 



PREFACE. 

I, being a follower of God Jehovah, am requested to 
do my duty as well as many others who were before me 
have done what they were commanded to do. 

At this age of the world Jehovah wanted some writ- 
ing to be done : this I have undertaken to do. It is my 
duty to do all I am able to do, for that is the law of 
God Jehovah. 

I shall write a small book in which will be written 
simply what was, what was prophesied and what is. 
That which I shall explain is all as brief as I can tell it, 
yet giving a fair idea to the reader. 

Therefore, kind reader, should you find anything 
written in this book that you doubt, or, should you 
think it is not true, you have the privilege of asking the 
spirits and see if they will not tell you the same. Re- 
member this, you must be positive that it is the spirit of 
the God Jehovah, for there are many lying and deceit- 
ful spirits. 



INDEX. 

The First Six Days I 

The First Commandment 26 

The Fifth Commandment 89 

Christ's Sermon on the Mount 105 

Communication with Spirits proved by the Bible. . 132 

Modern Spiritualism 140 

Mediumship of Materialization under the Law of 

Modern Spiritualism 154 

Table-tipping Mediumship under the Law of Mod- 
ern Spiritualism 166 

The Mediumship of Clairvoyance under the Law 

of Modern Spiritualism 173 

Magnetic Healing under the Law of Modern Spir- 
itualism 184 

How to talk with God Jehovah 191 

Many Gods 201 



CONTENTS OF CHAPTERS. 

CHAPTER I. 

THE FIRST SIX DAYS. 

First Day — Creation of the Great Light. — Second Day — 
Dividing of the Waters. — Third Day — Creation of this 
Present Earth. — Fourth Day — Creation of the Sun, Moon 
and Stars. — Fifth Day — Creation of the Fish of the Sea 
and the Fowls of the Air. — Concerning Scientific Facts 
of the Old Heaven. — Sixth Day — Creation of Adam and 
Eve. — Why Adam and Eve were Created Subject to Sin, 
and Condemned Because They Sinned. — Fall of Adam and 
Eve. 

CHAPTER II. 

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. 

Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. 

The Covenant with Gods. — Elijah's Contest with God 
Baal. — Moses' Contest in Egypt. — The Wise Men of Egypt 
Fail to do the Miracles. — The Three Gods of Egypt.— 
The Victory of Jehovah over the Three Egyptian Gods. — 
Covenants with Other Gods Forbidden ey Jehovah. — 
Executing Judgments Against the Gods of Egypt. — Sam- 
son's Trouble with God Dagon. — Daniel and King Darius. 
— Daniel Cast Into the Lions' Den. — Daniel Interprets 
the Hand-writing on the Wall. — Jehovah Orders the Im- 
ages to be Hewn Down. — Why Some Preachers Preach 
That There is But One God. — Advice to False Teachers. 



JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

— Existence of Anti-Christs. — Jehovah Warning His 
Prophet. 

CHAPTER III. 
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT. 

Thou shalt not kill. 

Origination of the Different Ideas About the Fifth 
Commandment. — The Only People Who Keep t v he Com- 
mandment. — Idol Worshipers. — Moses Killed a Man. — 
Many Gods in Egypt. — Moses Ordering Every Man to Kill 
His Own Brother. — David Killing the Messenger. — The 
Killing of the Messenger From a Worldly Viewpoint. — 
The Killing of the Messenger fro^ the Viewpoint of 
Spiritual Knowledge. — Elijah Killing the Prophets of 
Baal. 

CHAPTER IV. 

CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. 

The Two Kinds of Knowledge. — Laws of the God Jeho- 
vah. — Preparing for the Morrow. — The Teaching of the 
Spirit. 

CHAPTER V. 

COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS PROVED BY THE 

BIBLE 

Transfiguration of Christ. — What is Modern Spiritual- 
ism. — Preaching to the Spirits in Prison. — Hiring of the 
Minister. — Preaching to the Dead. 



JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

CHAPTER VI. 

MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 

The Free Spirits Allowed to Materialize. — The Orig- 
ination of the Indian. — Abraham Sending Hagar Into the 
Wilderness. — The Indian's Authorities. — The Gentile's 
Day Closing. — The Indian's Day Beginning. — The Indian's 
Day in the Spirit Land. — Where Spirits Get Their 
Strength. — Origination of the Different Doctrines. — The 
Woman's Day Coming. 



CHAPTER VII. 

MEDIUMSHIP OF MATERIALIZATION UNDER THE 
LAW OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 

What Can be Seen with the Physical and What With 
the Spiritual Eye. — Sitting for Medium ship. — Cabinet Un- 
necessary. — Trance not Necessary. — Lies From the Spirit 
Land. — Manifestations From the Cabinet. — How to 
Handle a. Materializing Medium. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

TABLE-TIPPING MEDIUMSHIP UNDER THE LAW 
OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 

Impressing the Medium. — The Raps for the Answers. — 
How to Handle a Table-tipping Medium. 



JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

CHAPTER IX. 
THE MEDIUMSHIP OF CLAIRVOYANCE UNDER THE 
LAW OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 
The Knowledge Required to Have the One Medium ship 
Complete. — Advice to a Clairvoyant Medium. — Where the 
Spirits Exist. — The Change of Medium ship. — A Develop- 
ing Medium. — How to Handle a Clairvoyant Medium. 

CHAPTER X. 

MAGNETIC HEALING UNDER THE LAW OF 
MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 

Various Laws of Healing. — Healing of Nervous Dis- 
eases. — How to Become a Healer Under the Law of Mod- 
ern Spiritualism. — Everything Which Exists Within the 
Seven Spheres Has its Law. — How to Handle a Healer 
Under the Law of Modern Spiritualism. 

CHAPTER XI. 

HOW TO COMMUNE WITH GOD JEHOVAH. 

War Among the Spirits. — Who Wrote the Christian 
Bible. — Giving up the Worldly Treasures. — Free Men. — 
Free Spirits. — The Teaching of Christ. 

CHAPTER XII. 

MANY GODS. 

Different Gods Sending Different Christs. — The Gods 
Using Each Other's Works. 



CHAPTER I. 
THE FIRST SIX DAYS. 

FIRST DAY — CREATION OF THE GREAT LIGHT. 

According to Gen. i : 1-5 — 

TN the beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth. 

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and 
darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the 
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

3 And God said, Let there be light : and there was 
light. 

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and 
God divided the light from the darkness. 

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness 
he called Night: and the evening and the morning 
were the first day. 

Gen. 1 : 1 — 

TN the beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth. 

This is a passage of Scripture which is difficult to 
understand. What was the beginning? Or, when 
was the beginning ? What existed when the beginning 
took place? 

There are very many different ideas as to how this 



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universe might have come into existence. Which 
should be said, did it come into existence, or, was it in 
existence ? 

Here are some ideas of the educated people of this 
world's knowledge only (for there are two kinds of 
knowledge), as to how this universe might have come 
into existence. They suppose that at one time the uni- 
verse was all gas, and this gas, finally taking fire, ex- 
ploded. Then, from the quickness of the explosion, 
the universe was jerked with such force that it was put 
into motion. 

The world having thus been put into motion, it being 
but a melted mass, kept changing from one condition 
to another, until finally it became a ball which is sup- 
posed to have been the sun. Likewise the sun, being 
in motion, and also being a melted mass, in time threw 
off pieces which flew a certain distance and they too 
revolved. 

Piece after piece having thus flown off, they were 
supposed to be the planets. 

This earth, supposed to be one of the pieces which 
flew off, finally grew cool, after which moss began to 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS 3 

grow, then insects, until animals appeared, and finally 
man sprung up. 

Furthermore, the ideas of other individuals are, that 
these planets feed on one another, just as the rabbit 
eats and lives on clover, corn, cabbage, and the wild 
cat eats the rabbit, etc. So one thing feeds upon the 
other, until they all have gone their rounds. 

Some put forth an idea which is most readily seen 
in the following illustration. Think of a horse in- 
fested with lice. There are very many lice on that one 
horse, and these lice are at their homes. A great many 
horses on the earth, and these horses are at their 
homes. A great many earths revolving around the sun, 
and the earths are at their homes. Very many suns 
revolving around one great sun, and they all are at 
their homes, etc. So each sun has its earth, each 
earth has its horses, each horse has its lice, each louse 
has its vermin, etc. These are the ideas some people 
have about this universe. 

A man who has the spiritual knowledge understands 
it differently. It is not necessary for me to treat any 
further on the ideas of worldly people, so I will again 
resume my discussion. 



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The time that expired during the first day, or, called 
the first period of time, I do not know. Scripture 
says, "the evening and the morning were the first day." 
Why not say, morning and evening were the first day ? 
Let us try to make this thought more clear. At that 
time there was no change of which we might grasp 
any knowledge. Of course there were changes that 
might be called days. Moses was not told to write 
anything about those changes, so he named it all one 
day. 

I am certain Moses did not write all he knew, thus I 
dare not write all I know. Nevertheless, compared 
with what may be learned of the spiritual knowledge, 
I know but little. 

After speaking the light into existence, God, divid- 
ing this light from the darkness, caused it to disappear 
from oar sight. The reason I say "our" sight, is, be- 
cause it was made for us, although Adam was not yet 
created. Jehovah had already intended to make man, 
for there had been a rebellion in heaven, somewhere in 
the space where the spirits stayed at that time. There 
was a group of angels, the exact number of which I 
do not know, that had banded together and rebelled 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS 5 

against Jehovah. One, being the leader, is called 
Devil, Abaddon, Apollyon, Beelzebub, Belial or Satan, 
and all those who followed him were also called devils. 
Those who rebelled, or, the so-called devils, were 
cast into a certain place and a mark put upon them. 
The reader may wonder what I mean by this mark. 
There are different kinds of marks. This mark was a 
condition, or, it may be called an influence. In talking 
with the spirits I often know them by their influence 
or condition that they bring with them. 

SECOND DAY — DIVIDING OF THE WATERS. 

Gen. i : 6-8 — 

6 1f And God said, Let there be a firmament in 
the midst of the waters : and let it divide the waters 
from the waters. 

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the 
waters which were under the firmament from the 
waters which were above the firmament : and it 
was so. 

8 And God called the firmament Heaven : and the 
evening and the morning were the second day. 

The firmament which God created the second day 
and called heaven, is a different heaven from the one 
that was created the first day. The heaven which was 
made the second day, was created in the space where 



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Satan and his followers now stay. It had a boundary 
line, within which all those who had that one certain 
mark (influence or condition) put upon them, were 
put without any way of escape. These were called 
Devils, for they were the ones who rebelled against 
Jehovah. 

A word to the reader: Do not condemn this book 
before you have read it and given it a thorough inves- 
tigation. "Do not hang a man before you have given 
him a fair trial." 

Gen. i : 7 — 

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the 
waters which were under the firmament from the 
waters which were above the firmament : 

This firmament which was created the second day, 

divided the waters only into two parts. That which it 

divided on the second day was called "waters," and is 

the same as that which was called the earth which was 

created the first day. On the second day there was no 

earth created, but simply a firmament which divided 

the earth, also called waters, which was created the 

first day. The God of Israel divided the earth into 

two parts only, placing the firmanent between them; 



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this composed the second day's (second period of time) 
work. Thus we have two earths and two heavens; 
starting at the bottom of the ladder to climb up. 

THIRD DAY — CREATION OF THIS PRESENT EARTH. 

Gen. i :9-i3 — 

9 fl And God said, let the waters under the heaven 
be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry 
land appear: and it was so. 

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the 
gathering together of the waters called he Seas; 
and God saw that it was good. 

ii And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, 
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding 
fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the 
earth: and it was so. 

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yield- 
ing seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, 
whose seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw 
that it was good. 

13 And the evening and the morning were the 
third day. 

On the third day, God created the earth which we 
stand on out of one part of the waters that were di- 
vided by the firmament the second day. 

Gen. 1 : 12 — 

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb 



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yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding 
fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: 

To give the reader some idea of how long those days 
were we will take a matured tree whose seed begins 
to grow and the seed again having seed, etc. Not 
mentioning the time that expired when the waters 
were gathered together for the dry larld to appear, 
those days were a period of time, not only twenty- four 
hours. 

I trust that the reader will understand that some of 
the ancient people knew something about planets, al- 
though they had no instruments to look through. It 
is often said that planets were discovered only in re- 
cent years, but Moses surely deserves some credit, for 
he surely must have known something about planets 
before he could write about them. 

The earth on which we live, and all the planets and 
the stars which the astronomers see, were created out 
of one part of the waters which were divided by the 
firmament the second day. The other part of the 
waters can not be seen at the present time. 

Very often the followers of the God of Israel are 
called "fools" by the worldly people as well ls by oth- 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS 9 

er gods. Some readers of this book may think Moses 
to have been a fool, and, perchance, have the same 
opinion of the author. 

When talking with the spirits of God Jehovah con- 
cerning the earths, the one which we stand on is called 
the finished earth, while the one (also called waters) 
which we cannot see is named the unfinished earth. 

For the benefit of those who have the worldly knowl- 
edge only (there are two kinds of knowledge) I will 
explain in a later chapter my statement regarding the 
spirits of God Jehovah, as well as these two kinds of 
knowledge. For the present, allow me to remind you 
that there are many Gods, and each God has his own 
band of spirits. 

The earth brought forth grass and herbs. How 
could these things grow without the sun which had not 
yet been created ? There was a light, called "the great 
light/' created the first day, which gave light to this 
earth at that time, and which made its round in one of 
those periods of time, called days. 

FOURTH DAY — CREATION OF THE SUN, MOON AND STARS. 

Gen. I : 14-19 — 

14 ft And God said, Let there be lights in the 



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firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the 
night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, 
and for days, and years. 

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of 
the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was 
so. 

16 And God made two great lights; the greater 
light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule 
the night: he made the stars also. 

17 And God set them in the firmament of the 
heaven to give light upon the earth, 

18 And to rule over the day, and over the night, 
and to divide the light from the darkness: and God 
saw that it was good. 

19 And the evening and the morning were the 
fourth day. 

On the fourth day God created the sun, moon and 
stars. The light of this sun is the light which we now 
see, and it somewhat resembles the light which was 
created the first day. It differs slightly for this reason, 
it is in a heaven that differs from the first heaven ; for 
this heaven, light, earth, moon and stars were created 
for a special purpose; it was to pen in those who re- 
belled against the God of Israel during the time of war 
in heaven ; a time which Moses called "first day," also 
known as the first period of time. These rebellious 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS II 

ones were put in here with the mark upon them which 
binds them. 

After the light had been created on the fourth day, 
the light that was created the first day disappeared 
from our sight because of the gulf which was put be- 
tween us. The "great light" that was created during 
the first day, gave light so that all things then existing 
on the earth might grow. But the sun, having been 
created on the fourth day, gave light, while the other 
light disappeared because of the gulf. 

If we had a telescope with a lense so strong as to 
enable us to read a daily paper at a distance from this 
earth to the moon, it would be utterly impossible to ob- 
tain the least glimpse of that "great light" which was 
created the first day. It is so obscure. 

The sun, moon, stars and planets, as well as every- 
thing that revolves, that which the astronomers see, 
and that which they can not see, all these the spirits of 
the God of Israel call the "old heaven." All that floats 
in this heaven was only a part of the waters ; the other 
part of the waters which the firmament divided and 
was created the second day, the spirits of the God Je- 
hovah call the "unfinished earth," which can not be 
seen because of the gulf. 



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So far we have the old heaven with all that floats 
within it, including the "small light/' We also have 
the unfinished earth, or called waters, which includes 
the great light. The sun which we now behold was 
created on the fourth day, while the "great" light was 
finished during the first day. The sun, moon and 
stars taken together, are called the old heaven, for 
there is to be a new heaven and a new earth created; 

A ND I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the 
first heaven and the first earth were passed away: 
and there was no more sea. 

Rev. 21 : 1. 

Whether that is finished or not, I cannot say. 

The old heaven keeps within itself a part of the 
waters which were divided by the firmament the sec- 
ond day. This includes all that is visible, such as the 
sun, moon, stars, etc. 

The light of the sun had no distinct effect upon the 
newly created earth, for it continued making its proper 
revolutions every twenty-four hours, just as it had 
done while under direct control of the first "great" 
light. 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS 1 3 

FIFTH DAY CREATION OF THE FISH OF THE SEA AND 

THE FOWLS OF THE AIR. 

Gen. i : 20-23 — 

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abun- 
dantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl 
that may fly above the earth in the open firmament 
of heaven. 

21 And God created great whales, and every living 
creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth 
abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl 
after his kind : and God saw that it was good. 

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and 
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let 
fowl multiply in the earth. 

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth 
day. 

In the fifth period of time, God created the fish of 
the sea and the fowl of the air. Of all that was cre- 
ated during the fifth day, there is nothing that I will 
treat of in this book. It was simply a period such as 
the others. 

CONCERNING SCIENTIFIC FACTS OF THE OLD HEAVEN. 

At this age of the world it is often said, that philos- 
ophers have definite proof that this world has been in 
existence much longer than the Bible says it has been. 

A large number of scientific facts have been gath- 



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ered by scientists, showing that even this very earth of 
ours, the youngest of the planets, is at least several 
hundred thousand years old. Therefore, according to 
this report, our earth is the last planet to have come 
into existence. But according to the report of the 
God Jehovah, this cannot be true, that is, if we reckon 
from the time the waters were divided by the firma- 
ment. 

Now let us go back just a step further and look at it 
from another standpoint. Before the earth (or called 
waters) was divided by the firmament, our earth as 
well as the planets, sun, moon and stars were counted 
as one. Thus we cannot say that our earth is the 
youngest of the planets. After the rebellion which 
took place in heaven, Jehovah divided the waters and 
placed a firmament between them. The one part of 
this division was put in working order within what is 
called the old heaven. 

Now, if we would consider its birth as far back as 
the old heaven, then our earth would be the oldest. 
Rightly speaking, this world is no older than the other 
planets, but it was the first planet that was put in 
working order. 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS 1 5 

It is also stated, that near New Orleans four growths 
of Cypress trees have been discovered far below the 
surface of the earth ; one growth situated above anoth- 
er, and these successive growths having occupied a 
period of at least one hundred and fifty thousand years. 
However, the Bible gives evidence of this earth having 
been created about six thousand years ago. 

I will try to make this clear to the reader. Let us 
then say, that those newly discovered growths of Cy- 
press trees are there, and that it took them about one 
hundred and fifty thousand years to grow. Bear this 
in mind, dear reader, that the first six days were six 
periods of time, not twenty-four hours each. Remem- 
ber, the trees were created on the third day. Now 
think of the time that expired in the third day only. 
The trees grew, and their seed in successive growths 
sprung up perhaps a thousand times before the third 
day was ended. During the third day alone, four 
growths of these mighty trees might have grown up, 
and in time been swept down and entirely covered, 
giving another growth the condition to appear. A 
little Scripture may be of some importance. 



1 6 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Gen. i : n — 

n And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, 
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding 
fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon 
the earth: and it was so. 

Remember, there are two kinds of knowledge. A 
man who has not the knowledge to talk with God Je- 
hovah, cannot comprehend the vast space of time that 
expired in the first six days. The days at that time 
were as long as it took the light which was created the 
first day to make one round. 

The scientists further state, that the fish of the sea 
were in existence long before the fowls of the air, and 

that God created them all in one day. I will admit 
that; but allow me to again call your attention to the 
fact that the fifth day was as long as any of the rest, 
therefore, the fish of the sea may have been in exist- 
ence thousands of years before the fowls of the air 
were created. 

Gen. i : 20 — 

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abun- 
dantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl 
that may fly above the earth in the open firmament 
of heaven. 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS ■ -J 7 

When I speak of years in this connection, I mean 
the space of time which we call a year at the present 
time. When I say, "the first six days," I do not mean 
a length of time such as we understand it now. A day 
means a change. When our earth revolves once, we 
call that a day. When the light that was created the 
first day made one round, it was called one day. 

There are other arguments which the worldly people 
put forth against the works of Jehovah ; such as figures 
of time that are pressed upon some slab or brick, show- 
ing that people inhabited this earth over six thousand 
years ago ; and various other arguments too numerous 
to mention. 

SIXTH DAY — CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE. 

Gen. 1 : 24-3 1 — 

24 ft And God said, Let the earth bring forth the 
living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping 
thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it 
was so. 

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his 
kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that 
creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw 
that it was good. 

26 H And God said, Let us make man in our 
image, after our likeness : and let them have dominion. 



I$- JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

oyer the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, 
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over 
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

27 So God created man in his own image, in the 
image of God created he him; male and female created 
he them. 

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, 
and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of 
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every 
living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

29 j[ And God said, Behold, I have given you 
every herb Bearing seed, which is upon the face of all 
the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of 
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every 
fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon 
the earth, wherein there is life, / have given every 
green herb for meat: and it was so. 

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, 
behold, it was very good. And the evening and the 
morning were the sixth day. 

During the sixth period of time, God Jehovah cre- 
ated Adam and Eve, also the beasts of the field, the 
cattle and all creeping things. Of all that was created 
in the sixth day, I will discuss nothing but the creation 
of man, which followed that of the animals and creep- 
ing things. 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS 19 

Think of the time that expired before Adam had 
been created. But after he had been created he was 
allowed to name all the beasts and the fowl that God 
had made. While thus engaged, he perceived that 
there were male and female of every living thing but 
man. 

Gen. 2 : 20 — 

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the 
fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field ; but for 
Adam there was not found an help meet for him. 

Having completed his task of naming that part of 
God's creation, Adam was put to sleep, and out of one 
of his ribs God made him a wife. All this came to 
pass during the sixth period of time. 

WHY ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED SUBJECT TO SIN, 
THEN CONDEMNED BECAUSE THEY YIELDED. 

In the second chapter of Genesis, Moses tells about 
the creation of this first man, Adam, called our earthly 
father. But let us also understand that Adam was 
created for the sole purpose of dwelling here on this 
little earth among those rebellious spirits who had 
been cast into this heaven in which we live, and who 
were but a part of the vast host of spirits and angels 
that existed before the creation of man. 



20 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

There were created male and female of every living 
thing that lived upon this earth, save human-kind, of 
whom there was only the one. Why was a help- 
mate not created at once for Adam just as for all other 
living things? Various ideas arise concerning this 
matter. 

Gen. 2 : 20 — 

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to 
the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; 
but for Adam there was not found an help meet for 
him. 

This passage shows that Adam named the beasts of 
the fields, etc., giving us to understand that great honor 
was bestowed upon him by being privileged to perform 
this great work. Not for honor alone was this done, 
but also to educate Adam, for he was to live on this 
earth among all the spirits, called Devils, that had re- 
belled against God Jehovah. In order that He might 
make himself well known to Adam after having cre- 
ated him, Jehovah did not immediately give him a 
wife, but, putting him into a deep sleep, He took one 
of Adam's ribs and created for him a wife. This He 
did so Adam might know that He was the God who 
made him, for Adam and his seed were to live on the 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS 21 

earth which floats in the old heaven, where Satan 
dwells. 

Gen. 2 \ 21-2.2 — 

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall 
upon Adam, and he slept : and he took one of his ribs, 
and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken 
from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto 
the man. 

This was all done to educate Adam that Jehovah 
was the God who created him. It was not that God 
did not know that Adam must have a mate as well as 
all other living beings, but rather to make him under- 
stand that Jehovah is above all other Gods. 

Adam was put on this earth to vex some other God ; 
for Jehovah had cast Satan and his followers into this 
heaven in which we now live. Therefore, Adam was 
created subject to sin, and eventually condemned be- 
cause he sinned. 

If Adam had been created so that he could not have 
sinned, it would not have grieved the Devil, for then he 
could not have caused Adam to fall. 

FALL OF ADAM AND EVE. 

Gen. 2:8-9; 16-17 — 

8 \ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward 



22 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had 
formed. 

9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to 
grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good 
for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the 
garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, say- 
ing, Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely 
eat: 

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and 
evil thou shalt not eat of it : for in the day that thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

Jehovah gave Adam the privilege to sin. But how 
pleased He was to know that Adam obeyed him by not 
eating the fruits of that certain tree. This obedience 
on Adam's part was provoking to Satan, who at once 
contrived a scheme to cause his victim to fall, which 
he finally brought about. Nevertheless, although 
Adam had entered a new sphere of thought and knowl- 
edge after his fall, yet his loss was far greater than 
his gain, for he was bereft of his spiritual knowledge 
which is greater than all. 

When the knowledge of Satan entered the heart of 
Adam and Eve, they were ashamed of each other. Be- 
fore they had sinned they were both naked, yet they 
had no shame. 



THE FIRST SIX DAYS 23 

The condition that existed prior to the fall, might be 
better understood in the following illustration, A gar- 
den was made, around which a fence had been built. 
A man, who was stationed in the garden, was told by 
the master of the garden to go in and out all the gates 
which had been placed at intervals, except one. 

It would be the man's desire to go through that one 
particular gate ; and, satisfying that desire, he ventured 
to use the forbidden pass-way, thereby greatly provok- 
ing his master. 

Now, if the master had told the servant that he 
might go in and out any gate whatever, there would 
have been no chance to disobey, and, being forever 
faithful to his master, he would provoke some servant 
who had disobeyed in one way or another. 

Adam was placed in the garden to obey the God 
who put him there for the purpose of provoking Satan. 
Therefore, in order to vex the Devil, God Jehovah had 
to create Adam subject to sin so that he might sin if 
he so desired. If Jehovah had not created Adam and 
Eve under those conditions, it would never have pro- 
voked Satan; consequently, the saying would have 
been, "you have not created them subject to sin, how 



24 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

could .they , do otherwise but obey your word?" 
Satan, being enraged with jealousy upon seeing. 
Adam and his wife obey their God, prepared for their 
downfall. This was entirely unexpected by Jehovah, 
and He at once used such influence and power as to 
overcome the wisdom of Satan. 

This earth on which we stand, as well as the sun, the 
moon, the stars; likewise Adam and all that was cre- 
ated in the old heaven during the first six days, were 
all placed in this universe to provoke Satan and his 
followers. 

A large number of the planets, stars, etc., were cre- 
ated for a sort of reserve power; that is, if Adam 
should fall, they were to be used to fulfil God's plans. 
It was the hidden wisdom of God Jehovah which Satan 
did not know. Some of this wisdom was quoted when 
Christ was on this earth. All has not yet been told. 



Jehovah has arranged the world, 

To the worldly man 'tis strange, 

The fox-squirrel sleeps in a hollow tree, 

And the cow sleeps on the range. 






THE FIRST SIX DAYS 25 

The owl sleeps in the bright day-time 
When the sun is shining bright ; 
The chicken-hawk in the quiet night, 
When the moon does show its light. 

The gray squirrel lives on the prairie 
And makes his home in the ground ; 
Other gray squirrels live in the wood 
And in the hollow tree are found. 

The monster bird flies in the air, 
And likewise does the bee; 
Jehovah's mysteries may be found 
In all your eye can see. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. 

THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME. 

When I was a boy, I was educated in the doctrine of 
the Lutheran church, the adherents of which called it 
the only true church, and taught that there was but 
one God. Some years later, I was converted to the 
God of Israel, called Jehovah. While groping my 
way in ignorance towards the truth, I learned that 
there were great many Gods* 

Exodus 20 : 3 — 

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 
Considering this commandment from a thoughtful 
standpoint, there surely must be other Gods. If there 
had been but one God, there would have been no need 
of making a law which forbade the people of Israel to 
worship other Gods. Why make a law for something 
which does not exist? To illustrate what I mean: if 
the state of Ohio were to pass a law forbidding men 
to kill fish with dynamite, when in fact there were no 
fish to kill, would you not consider it mere folly? 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. 2*J 

Then, would you say such a one is wise, who would 
create a law against that which does not, perhaps 
never will, exist? Or would any man tell his child 
not to fall into a hole in the field, if in truth, there 
were none such in which the child might fall? 

Some church people whom I have met, told me that 
there is but one God. They said that when God gave 
the commandment, 

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 

Exodus 20 : 3. 

those Gods meant idols, as, a God of gold, a God of 
silver, or a God of wood, which were all made by man. 
Any one teaching such a doctrine as this surely cannot 
be teaching the doctrine of Christ which is the law of 
the God of Israel. 

THE COVENANT WITH GODS. 

Exodus 23 : 32 — 

32 Thou shait make no covenant with them, nor 
with their gods. 

It is very reasonable that God Jehovah should for- 
bid his people to make a covenant with the people of 



28 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

some other nations; some one with whom they could 
reason. He therefore used these words, 

Thou shalt make no covenant with them. 

Exodus 23 :32 ; meaning the people. That is, they 
should make no covenant with mortal beings like them- 
selves; such with whom they could talk and reason; 
some one who had knowledge; a human being. In 
order to give the reader a clearer understanding, I will 
enlarge upon the thought. When the God of Israel 
said: 

Thou shalt make no covenant with them. 

Exodus 23 : 32. 

he also added, 

nor with their gods. 

Exodus 23 : 32. 

Now, if He meant the Gods of wood, or the Gods of 
gold, and did not mean the living Gods, allow me to 
ask, is it possible for any intelligent being to make a 
covenant with a piece of wood or a lump of gold? 
How dare a man boldly declare that he is teaching the 
word of Israel, yet teach that there is but one God. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 29 

READER, THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. 
If the teacher were honest enough to admit that his 
people had hired him to say things to please them, and, 
if he failed to do this he would lose his position, then 
I would say, that that man is honest in performing his 
duty. But when he says that he is teaching the gospel 
of Jehovah, and at the same time teaches that there is 
but one God, I say that he is teaching falsely, and is 
not telling the truth. 

Elijah's contest with god baal. 

While I am trying to make plain to the reader that 
there are many Gods, allow me to refer you to I Kings 
18:21— 

21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, 
How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord 
be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. 

Elijah, when he expressed himself in these words, 

if the Lord be God, follow him: 

surely meant Jehovah ; and likewise when he said, 

but if Baal, then follow him. 

dare we suppose, with reasonable intelligence, that he 
meant an idol of gold or silver? 



30 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

I Kings 18:26— 

26 And they took the bullock which was given 
them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of 
Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, 
hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that an- 
swered. 

In this conflict which took place between the two 
Gods during the time of Elijah, Baal's prophets 
prayed for fire to fall from heaven to consume their 
offering. While they thus called unto Baal to hear 
them, did they look for the idol to bring fire, or did 
they expect that a living God would give them their 
request ? They cried 

O Baal hear us. 

I Kings 18 : 26. 

The writer also says, 

But there ivas no voice, nor any that answered. 

I Kings 18:26. 

According to this passage of Scripture, Baal must 
have been in the habit of speaking to his people at 
times, as well as Jehovah must have conversed with 
his followers ever and anon. The prohpets thought, 
if Baal could not send fire, they at least would hear 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 31 

some voice; and surely, they did not expect 
the idol to speak, no more than they expected the idol 
to send fire. Yet the prophets of Baal must have 
talked with their God, for why should they have such 
confidence in him regarding the sending of fire ? 

The God Baal, undoubtedly, comforted his prophets 
at times in the way of healing, prophesying or telling 
of future events, otherwise they would not have with- 
stood Elijah in that great contest. 

After the prophets of Baal had waited until noon- 
time for fire, Elijah mocked them and said : 

Cry loud: for he is a god; cither he is talking, or 
he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure 
he sleepeth, and must be awaked. 

I Kings 18 : 27. 
Thus Elijah, using these words, 
For he is a god : 

proved that he knew something about the other Gods. 
He was aware that Jehovah was not the only God that 
existed. There were two Gods in battle, each trying 
to answer his own people. 
We also read, 

28 And they cried loud, and cut themselves after 



32 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

their manner, with knives and lancets, till the blood 
gushed out upon them. 

I Kings 18 : 28. 

According to this verse the God Baal required of his 
people to cut themselves with knives and lancets be- 
fore he would answer their prayers, especially during 
such a critical moment as this must have been. Ac- 
cording to the reading, Elijah was the follower of 
Jehovah, while the other prophets were the followers 
of Baal. 

When a man of this earth attains the knowledge of 
talking with the Gods, it is then easy for him to be- 
lieve. But as long as a man has not that knowledge, 
it seems almost impossible to have any belief whatever. 
The laws which these different Gods have, and the 
different conditions it requires to talk with them, will 
not be entirely discussed in this book. In order to 
enlighten the reader as to the different Gods, let us 
consider the story of Moses and King Pharaoh. 

MOSES' CONTEST IN EGYPT. 

Exodus 7:8-12 — 

8 ft And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto 
Aaron, saying, 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 33 

9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew 
a miracle for you : then thou shalt say unto Aaron, 
Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall 
become a serpent. 

10 ft And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, 
and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and 
Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and be- 
fore his servants, and it became a serpent. 

11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the 
sorcerers : now the magicians of Egypt, they also 
did in like manner with their enchantments. 

12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they 
became serpents : but Aaron's rod swallowed up their 
rods. 

Here is represented the God Jehovah on one side, 
while the Gods of the wise men of Egypt hold sway on 
the other. For, notice, when Aaron cast his rod be- 
fore Pharaoh, it became a serpent. Nevertheless, the 
Egyptians' rods also were transferred into serpents; 
plainly showing that there were two Gods in the con- 
test, each assisting his own people. 

Exodus 7: 12 — 

but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. 

Evidently, one God was more powerful than the other. 

Exodus 7: 15-22 — 

15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he 



34 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

goeth out unto the water ; and thou shalt stand by the 
river's brink against he come; and the rod which was 
turned to a serpent thou shalt take in thine hand. 

16 And thou shalt say unto him, The Lord God 
of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let 
my people go, that they may serve me in the wilder- 
ness : and behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear. 

17 Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know 
that I dm the Lord: behold, I will smite with the rod 
that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the 
river, and they shall be turned to blood. 

18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and 
the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe 
to drink of the water of the river. 

19 fl And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto 
Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon 
the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their 
rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools 
of water, that they may become blood; and that 
there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, 
both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. 

20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord com- 
manded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the 
waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, 
and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters 
that were in the river were turned into blood. 

21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the 
river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the 
water of the river; and there was blood throughout 
all the land of Egypt. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 35 

22 And th magicians of Egypt did so with their 
enchantments : and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, 
neither did he hearken unto them ; as the Lord had 
said. 

The second miracle performed by Jehovah through 
Moses, was the turning of the waters of the rivers of 
Egypt into blood. 

Not knowing the names of the Gods whom the 
Egyptian magicians followed, we will simply call them 
the Egyptian Gods. 

Talking with a God who said he had been in that 
conflict, I was informed that there were three Gods, 
each of whom had a great many followers in Egypt 
from whence Moses led the children of Israel. 

Jehovah allowed the Gods of Egypt to perform the 
same miracles through their followers, as He did 
through Moses. Jehovah said : 

but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let 
the people go. 

Exodus 4: 21. 

Thus, by permitting the magicians, for a time, to 
equal Moses, Pharaoh's heart would surely be hard- 
ened. 



36 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Exodus 8: 1-7 — 

A ND the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, 
and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my 
people go, that they may serve me. 

2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will 
smite all thy borders with frogs : 

3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, 
which shall go up and come into thine house, and into 
thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the 
house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into 
thine ovens, and into thy kneading troughs: 

4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and 
upon thy people, and upon all thy servants. 

5 fl And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto 
Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over 
the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and 
cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. 

6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters 
of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the 
land of Egypt. 

7 And the magicians did so with their enchant- 
ments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. 

Again Jehovah exhibits his power and might 

through his servants Moses and Aaron, and again the 

offending Gods show their skill by equaling God in the 

production. Seeing the wise men and magicians of 

Egypt thus withstanding Moses and his God, Pharaoh 

naturally would think it absurd to harken unto other 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 37 

Gods, when his own people had performed the same 
wonders as Moses did. 

When Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, it was not 
as many people think. For instance, you were play- 
ing a game of checkers with some one whom you 
could easily conquer in the play. At first, without his 
being cognizant of your scheme, you allow him to be 
the winner of several games, thereby hardening his 
heart, in other words, puffing him up. Then, after 
having established confidence in himself, you would be 
obliged to defeat him in a great many games in order 
to destroy that stubborn pride. 

Moses and Aaron, the two servants of Jehovah, 
stretched out the rod over the rivers and ponds, and 
frogs came forth. Likewise did the Egyptians. This 
continual equaling of miracles hardened Pharaoh's 
heart. 

THE WISE MEN OF EGYPT FAIL TO DO THE MIRACLES. 

Exodus 8: 16-19 — 

16 fl And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto 
Aaron, btretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the 
land, that it may become lice throughout all the land 
of Egypt. 



38 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his 
hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, 
and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust 
of the land became lice throughout all the land of 
Egypt. 

18 And the magicians did so with their enchant- 
ments to bring forth lice, but they could not ; so there 
were lice upon man and upon beast. 

19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is 
the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hard- 
ened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord 
had said. 

Finally Jehovah proves himself God over all. Moses 
and Aaron smite the dust of the land and it becomes 
lice. The magicians try the same, but fail. They 
then confess that it is the finger of God. But which 
God ? The writer did not say which God's finger was 
meant; he simply states, "the finger of God." 

I suppose, dear reader, it is hard for you to believe 
many of these historic mystic tales; nevertheless they 
are true. I fully believe that at one time there was a 
civil war in America, between the North and South; 
Although I was born some years after the struggle, 
yet I believe that there was such a war. I can talk 
with men on earth, who say they fought in that war. 
I can talk with the colored man who was freed from 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 39 

the bondage of slavery, and I have no reason whatever 
to doubt historic statements or say they are untrue. 

When a man who has the knowledge to talk with 
those spirits that performed wonders at that time, is 
able to converse with the Gods whom the ancient peo- 
ple followed, it is then just as easy for him to believe 
that those miracles were performed, as it is to believe 
that there was a war between the North and South. * 

The laws which are required to talk with those spir- 
its will not be discussed wholly in this book. 

Exodus 8 : 20-25 — 

20 fl And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up 
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, 
he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, 
Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may 
serve me. 

21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, 
I will send swarms of Hies upon thee, and upon thy 
servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: 
and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of 
swarms of Hies, and also the ground whereon they 
are. 

22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, 
in which my people dwell, that no swarms of Hies. 
shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I 
am the Lord in the midst of the earth. 



40 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

23 And I will put a division between my people 
and thy people : tomorrow shall this sign be. 

24 And the Lord did so; and there came a griev- 
ous swarm of Hies into the house of Pharaoh, and 
into his servants' houses, and into all the land of 
Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the 
swarm of Hies, 

2$ 1f And Pharaoh called for Moses and for 
Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the 
land. 

After the Lord God had caused the swarms of flies 
to come into the land, Pharaoh said 

Go ye, sacrifice to your God. 

Exodus 8:25, 

showing that the King knew that there were other 
Gods. Pharaoh must have either known previously 
that there were other Gods, or, he was now compelled 
to believe it through these miracles which Moses and 
Aaron performed. Perhaps he had been educated that 
there was a God who was wiser than the Gods of his 
magicians. 

Reader, bear this in mind, there are two kinds of 
knowledge. 

These stories seem strange to a man who has but the 
worldly knowledge. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 41 

There is also a spiritual knowledge which will be 
partly explained in a later chapter. 

Exodus 9: 1-7 — 

HPHEN the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto 
Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of 
the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve 
me. 

2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold 
them still, 

3 Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle 
which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, 
upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep : 
there shall be a very grievous murrain. 

4 And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of 
Israel and the cattle of Egypt : and there shall nothing 
die of all that is the children's of Israel. 

5 And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To 
morrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land. 

6 And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, 
and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of 
the children of Israel died not one. 

7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not 
one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart 
of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the 
people go. 

In this trial which Moses had with Pharaoh, we are 
not told that the Egyptian God could not have per- 
formed the same miracles. Of course, the Egyptian 



42 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

magicians could not have killed their own cattle, for 
Jehovah had already done that; and if they did try to 
kill the Israelites' cattle, they certainly must have failed 
to accomplish it. 

Oftentimes it has happened to me that people of the 
worldly knowledge have said while we were disputing 
about the Scripture, that Jehovah was unreasonable in 
killing all the cattle of the Egyptians. But to my mind 
it is clear, that He did this merely to educate Pharaoh 
that He was God above all other Gods. 

Exodus 9 : 8-17 — 

8 fl And the Lord said unto Moses and unto 
Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, 
and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the 
sight of Pharoah. 

9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of 
Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains 
upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of 
Egypt. 

10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood 
before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward 
heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with 
blains upon man, and upon beast. 

11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses 
because of the boils; for the boil was upon the 
magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 43 

12 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, 
and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had 
spoken unto Moses. 

13 ff And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early 
in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say 
unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, 
Let my people go, that they may serve me. 

14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon 
thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy 
people; that thou may est know that there is none like 
me in all the earth. 

15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may 
smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou 
shalt be cut off from the earth. 

16 And in very deed for this cause have I raised 
thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my 
name may be declared throughout all the earth. 

17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, 
that thou wilt not let them go? 

Jehovah called it just and right to abase Pharaoh 
and cause all these plagues to come upon him, for 
Jehovah had prospered him and his land through his 
servant Joseph. (Joseph's father was named Jacob, 
also called Israel.) If you read the life of Joseph as 
it is recorded in the book of Genesis 37, you will find 
that he was sold by his brethren to a band of Egyptians. 
This Joseph was the servant of Jehovah. Having been 



44 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

sold into Egypt, his experiences in a strange land soon 
began. A married woman, having fallen in love with 
him and his failure to comply with her request, was 
the cause of his being put into prison. For, remem- 
ber, Joseph was unjustly taken prisoner. But condi- 
tions were soon to assume a different aspect. Two of 
the unfortunates who were sharing Joseph's fate had 
each dreamed a dream which Joseph was called upon 
to interpret. All things came to pass as he had fore- 
told. Soon after this incident, the king of Egypt had 
a dream which no one but Joseph could explain to him. 
It was the God Jehovah who was putting Joseph just 
where he wanted him to be. The interpretation was, 
seven years of plenty, then seven years of famine, dur- 
ing which periods Joseph was appointed overseer of all 
the land of Egypt. 

During the seven years of plenty, Joseph gathered a 
great deal of food and stored it away for the seven 
years of famine. When the lean times came, Joseph 
sold what he had saved. Thus the God Jehovah ex- 
alted the king of Egypt through his servant Joseph 
and by means of the prosperity which the Israelites had 
established in the land. After Pharaoh's death, an- 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 45 

other Egyptian (also named Pharaoh) succeeded him 
to the throne. This new king did not know Joseph. 

The king whom the plagues were brought upon was 
not the king who lived in Egypt at the time of Joseph. 
When Jehovah said : 

And in very deed for this cause have I raised 
thee up, for to shew in thee my power; 

Exodus 9 : 16, 

he spoke as though he were talking to the king 
in the time of Joseph. The kings were counted as 
one because they served the same Gods. To interpret 
this reading more plainly, allow me to use the following 
version : "For this reason have I brought your Gods 
up, that I could show my workings in them ;" another 
rendering may be made to read thus, "for this reason 
I have used my servant Joseph to help your Gods bring 
up their nations that I might bring them down again ; 
to prove to you and your Gods, that there is no other 
like me, and that I am the God of Gods and Lord of 
Lords." 

Jehovah called it right to prosper Pharaoh, and fully 
as right to bring him down again. 



46 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Exodus 9: 18-35; IO ; I][ ; I2: l "3 2 — 

18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause 
it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been 
in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. 

19 Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and 
all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man 
and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall 
not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon 
them, and they shall die. 

20 He that feared the word of the Lord among the 
servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle 
flee into the houses: 

21 And he that regarded not the word of the Lord 
left his servants and his cattle in the field. 

22 1f And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth 
thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in 
all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and 
upon every herb of the field, throughout the land 0/ 
Egypt. 

23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward 
heaven : and the Lord sent thunder and hail, -and the 
fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained 
hail upon the land of Egypt. 

24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, 
very grievous, such as there was none like it in all 
the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 

25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of 
Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; 
and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake 
every tree of the field. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 47 

26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children 
of Israel were, was there no hail. 

27 fl" And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and 
Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: 
the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 

28 Intreat the Lord (for it is enough) that there 
be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will 
let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. 

29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am 
gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands 
unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither 
shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know 
how that the earth is the Lord's. 

30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that 
ye will not yet fear the Lord God. 

31 And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the 
barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. 

32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten : 
for they were not grown up. 

33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, 
and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord: and the 
thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured 
upon the earth. 

3d And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the 
hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet 
more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 

35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither 
would he let the children of Israel go; as the Lord 
had spoken by Moses. 



48 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

CHAPTER X. 

A ND the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Phar- 
aoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart 
of his servants, that I might shew these my signs 
before him: 

2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, 
and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in 
Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them ; 
that ye may know how that I am the Lord. 

3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, 
and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the 
Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thy- 
self before me? let my people go, that they may serve 
me. 

4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, 
tomorrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: 

5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that 
one cannot be able to see the earth; and they shall 
eat the residue of that which is escaped, which re- 
maineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every 
tree which groweth for you out of the field: 

6 And they shall fill thy nouses, and the houses of 
all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; 
which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers 
have seen, since the day that they were upon the 
earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went 
out from Pharaoh. 

7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How 
long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 49 

go, that they may serve the Lord their God : knowest 
thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? 

8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto 
Pharaoh : and he said unto them, Go, serve the Lord 
your God: but who are they that shall go? 

9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and 
with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, 
with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for 
we must hold a feast unto the Lord. 

10 And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with 
you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look 
to it; for evil is before you. 

11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the 
Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven 
out from Pharaoh's presence 

12 fl And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out 
thine hand over the land of Egypt for the lo- 
custs, that they may come up upon the land of 
Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that 
the hail hath left. 

13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land 
of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon 
the land all that day, and all that night; and when it 
was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.. 

14 And the locusts went up over all the land of 
Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; very 
grievous were they; before them there were no such 
locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 

15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, 
so that the land was darkened; and they did eat 



50. JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees 
which the hail had left: and there remained not any- 
green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, 
through all the land of Egypt. 

16 ft Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron 
in haste ; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord 
your God, and against you. 

17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only 
this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may 
take away from me this death only. 

18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated 
the Lord. 

19 And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, 
which took away the locusts, and cast them into the 
Red sea ; there remained not one locust in all the 
coasts of Egypt. 

20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that 
he would not let the children of Israel go. 

21 f And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out 
thine hand toward heaven, that there may be dark- 
ness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may 
be felt. 

22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward 
heaven ; and there was a thick darkness in all the 
land of Egypt three days : 

2$ They saw not one another, neither rose any 
from his place for three days : but all the children 
of Israel had light in their dwellings. 

24 fl And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, 
Go ye, serve the Lord ; only let your flocks and your 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 5 1 

herds be stayed : let your little ones also go with you. 

25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacri- 
fices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto 
the Lord our God. 

26 Our cattle shall also go with us; there shall not 
an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take 
to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with 
what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither. 

27 fl But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and 
he would not let them go. 

28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, 
take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in 
that day thou seest my face thou shalt die. 

29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will 
see thy face again no more. 

CHAP. XI. 

^ND the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring 
one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; 
afterwards he will let you go hence : when he shall 
let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence al- 
together. 

2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let 
every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman 
of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold. 

3 And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight 
of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was 
very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of 
Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people. 



52 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

4 And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, About 
midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: 

5 And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall 
die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon 
his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-serv- 
ant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born 
of beasts. 

6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all 
the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor 
shall be like it any more. 

7 But against any of the children of Israel shall 
not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: 
that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a differ- 
ence between the Egyptians and Israel. 

8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto 
me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get 
thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and 
after that I will go out. And he went out from 
Pharaoh in a great anger. 

9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall 
not hearken unto you ; that my wonders may be multi- 
plied in the land of Egypt. 

io And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders 
before Pharaoh: and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's 
heart so that he would not let the children of Israel 
go out of his land. 

CHAP. XII. 

^ND the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in 
the land of Egypt, saying, 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 53 

2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of 
months : it shall be the first month of the year to you. 

3 fl Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, 
saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall 
take to them every man a lamb, according to the 
house of their fathers, a lamb for an house : 

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, 
let him and his neighbour next unto his house take 
it according to the number of the souls ; every man 
according to his eating shall make your count for 
the lamb. 

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of 
the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or 
from the goats : 

6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day 
of the same month : and the whole assembly of the 
congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 

7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it 
on the two side-posts and on the upper door-post of 
the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast 
with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs 
they shall eat it. 

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, 
but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with 
the purtenance thereof. 

io And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the 
morning; and that which remaineth of it until the 
morning ye shall burn with fire. 

ii ft And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins 



54 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in 
your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the 
Lord's passover. 

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this 
night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of 
Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods 
of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. 

13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon 
the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I 
will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon 
you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 

14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; 
and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout 
your generations ; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordi- 
nance for ever. 

15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even 
the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your 
houses : for whosoever eateth leavened bread from 
the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be 
cut off from Israel. 

16 And in the first day there shall be an holy con- 
vocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy 
convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done 
in them, save that which every man must eat, that 
only may be done of you. 

17 And ye shall observe the feasts of unleavened 
bread; for in this self-same day have I brought your 
armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye 
observe this day in your generations by an ordinance 
for ever. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 55 

18 If In the first month, on the fourteenth day of 
the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until 
the one and twentieth day of the month at even. 

. 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven ' found in 
your house : for whosoever eateth that which is leav- 
ened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congre- 
gation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in 
the land. 

20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habi- 
tations shall ye eat unleavened bread. 

21 1f Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, 
and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb 
according to your families, and kill the passover. 

22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip 
it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel 
and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the 
basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of 
his house until the morning. 

23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the 
Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the 
lintel, and on the two side-posts, the Lord will pass 
over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to 
come in unto your houses to smite you. 

24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance 
to thee and to thy* sons for ever. 

25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to 
the land which the Lord will give you, according 
as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 

26 And it shall come to pass, when your children 
shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 



56 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the 
Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of the 
children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the 
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the peo- 
ple bowed the head and worshipped. 

28 And the children of Israel went away, and did 
as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so 
did they. 

29 ff And it came to pass, that at midnight the 
Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, 
from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne 
unto the first-born of the captive that zvas in the 
dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle. 

30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all 
his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was 
a great cry in Egypt ; for there was not a house where 
there was not one dead. 

31 fl And he called for Moses and Aaron by 
night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from 
among my people, both ye and the children of Israel ; 
and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said. 

32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have 
said, and be gone; and bless me also. 

THE THREE GODS OF EGYPT. 

While reading the story of the miracles which were 
performed in the land of Egypt by Moses for Jehovah, 
we learn that it was the God Jehovah who was fighting 
against the Egyptian Gods. Three Gods on the oppos- 



/ 

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 57 

ing side were fighting Jehovah at the time of this great 
struggle. 

At one time, Jehovah, through his servant Joseph, led 
his followers, among whom were Joseph's father and 
brothers, into Egypt. The Israelites were the follow- 
ers of the God of Israel, under whom they grew strong, 
thereby building up a prosperous land for Pharaoh. 

Jehovah brought success to Pharaoh through his peo- 
ple Israel. He then brought Pharaoh low through his 
servant Moses to show to the Gods of Egypt his power 
and might. 

THE VICTORY OF JEHOVAH OVER THE THREE EGYPTIAN 

GODS. 

The three Gods of Egypt that were in the fight 
against Jehovah had now retreated, having gained but 
few followers since the time of their last terrible defeat. 
The reader may w r onder how I know this. I have 
talked with these very Gods, and they told it to me. 
The reader may also like to know how it is possible for 
me to talk with these Gods. I will say, that anyone may 
converse with them providing they have the knowledge, 
and are in the proper condition. There are two kinds 



58 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

of knowledge. It is hard to understand for the one 
having only one knowledge. 

The different conditions, etc., that it requires to talk 
with these different Gods, I will partly discuss later on. 

COVENANTS WITH OTHER GODS FORBIDDEN BY JEHOVAH. 

Let us again resume the question as to whether there 
is one or more Gods. When the God Jehovah gave the 
commandment to his people Israel he said — 
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 

Exodus 20 : 3. 

The question now is, did He mean Gods of silver or 
gold, or Gods of intelligence? We must explain the 
Scriptures through the Scriptures. Again God gave a 

commandment, Exodus 23 : 32-33 — 

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor 
with their gods. 

33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make 
thee sin against me : for if thou serve their gods, it 
will surely be a snare unto thee. 

Here Israel used such clear language when he said, 

thou shalt make no covenant with them, 

that we cannot mistake his meaning. If a man makes 

a covenant with something, it must be a thing of in- 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 59 

telligence. A covenant is an agreement or an under- 
standing between two or more parties ; something bind- 
ing. Here the Israelites were forbidden to make a 
covenant with the other people. But when Jehovah 
said, 

Thou shalt make no covenant with them. 

Exodus 23 : 32. 

He also added, 

nor with their gods. 
Then surely, these Gods that are spoken of here were 
not Gods of silver or gold. Man cannot make a cove- 
nant with a piece of wood or stone, nor a lump of gold. 
The Gods of those people certainly were Gods of intelli- 
gence. If they were Gods of intelligence, they then 
comforted their people as well as Jehovah, the God of 
Israel, comforted his followers. 

Israel furthermore said — 

They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make 
thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it 
will surely be a snare unto thee. 

Exodus 23 : 33. 

Here again it is stated as plain as words could ex- 
press : 



60 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto 
thee. 

Could God Jehovah have used any language to make 
it more simple to understand? Could anyone, after 
having read this book and used good judgment, say that 
there is but one God, and still profess his belief in the 
Scriptures that testify of the Christ of the God Je- 
hovah ? 

EXECUTING JUDGMENT AGAINST THE GODS OF EGYPT. 

Exodus 12:12 

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this 
night, and will smite all the first-born in the land 
of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the 
gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the 
Lord. 

Here the God of Israel is condemning the Gods of 
Egypt; for, remember, there were very many Gods in 
Egypt at that time. When the God of Israel said, 

and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judg- 
ment : 

would he have been so foolish or ignorant as to execute 
judgment if those Gods in Egypt had been idols of 
silver or gold, wood or stone, made by man ? 



TKE FIRST COMMANDMENT 6l 

THINK, READER, AND LET REASON BE YOUR 
GUIDE. 

If then a minister says he is preaching the gospel of 

Jesus the Christ and of the God of Israel, and holds 

there is but one God, can then this passage of Scripture 

be true, which expressly says, 

and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judg- 
ment : 

Exodus 12 : 12. 

Certainly not. Therefore the ministers and teachers of 
many religions, teaching that there is but one God, are 
not teaching the law of Jehovah. I would not say that 
they are not teaching a doctrine, for they do teach the 
doctrine of some other God. 

All Gods comfort their people, but every God is not 
a saving God. There is in reality only one God who 
can save you, while any God may comfort you just for 
the present time. 

samson's trouble with god dagon. 

Judges 16:23-24 — 

23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them 
together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon 
their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god 
hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. 



62 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

24 And when the people saw him, they praised their 
god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our 
hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, 
which slew many of us. 

According to this passage of Scripture, we under- 
stand that the Philistines had a God named Dagon, for 
it says 

for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, 

Judges 16 : 23. 

plainly stating that the Philistines worshiped a living 
God, for they surely would not have believed that an 
idol of wood or stone could have delivered Samson 
into their hands. Mark the reading: 

they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath 
delivered into our hands our enemy. 

To slowly acquaint the reader with the laws of the 
different Gods, several of them will be spoken of here. 

The idea of two kinds of knowledge must not be for- 
gotten, for the Bible is written partly in what is called 
the worldly knowledge, and partly in the spiritual 
knowledge. The worldly man cannot understand the 
Scripture because he has not the spiritual knowledge. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 63 

So, dear reader, is this book partly written in the spir- 
itual knowledge. 

The law of the God of Israel was, that a sacrifice 
should be offered upon an altar ; while other Gods de- 
sired their people to make idols, and there go to wor- 
ship. For this reason such people were called idol wor- 
shipers. An idol worshiper means one who follows 
a God that asks him to go to an idol to worship. 

Some Gods do not allow their people to make idols. 
The God Jehovah, as some other Gods, would not allow 
his followers to make an idol to represent him ; for an 
idol represents a God just as a flag represents its coun- 
try. 

When a man obeys the law of a God, that God will 
comfort him. 

DANIEL AND KING DARIUS. 

Daniel 6:1-28 — 

TT pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an 
hundred and twenty princes, which should be over 
the whole kingdom; 

2 And over these three presidents ; of whom Daniel 
was first: that the princes might give accounts unto 
them, and the king should have no damage. 

3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presi- 



64 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

dents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in 
him; and the king thought to set him over the whole 
realm. 

4 fl Then the presidents and princes sought to find 
occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but 
they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch 
as he was faithful, neither was there any error or 
fault found in him. 

5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occa- 
sion against this Daniel, except we find it against 
him concerning the law of his God. 

6 Then these presidents and princes assembled to- 
gether to the king, and said thus unto him, King 
Darius, live for ever. 

7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, 
and the princess, the counsellors, and the captains, have 
consulted together to establish a royal statute, and 
to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a 
petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of 
thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 

8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the 
writing, that it be not changed, according to the 
law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 

9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and 
the decree. 

10 fl Now when Daniel knew that the writing was 
signed, he went into his house; and his windows 
being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he 
kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, 
and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 65 

11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel 
praying and making supplication before his God. 

12 Then they came near, and spake before the king 
concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed 
a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of 
any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O 
king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king 
answered and said, The thing is true, according to 
the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth 
not. 

13 Then answered they and said before the king, 
That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity 
ot Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree 
that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three 
times a day. 

14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was 
sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on 
Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going 
down of the sun to deliver him. 

15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and 
said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of 
the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor stat- 
ute which the king establisheth may be changed. 

16 Then the king commanded, and they brought 
Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the 
king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou 
servest continually, he will deliver thee. 

17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the 
mouth of the den ; and the king sealed it with his own 



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signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the 
purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel. 

18 ft Then the king went to his palace, and passed 
the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick 
brought before him: and his sleep went from him. 

19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, 
and went in haste unto the den of lions. 

20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a 
lamentable voice unto Daniel : and the king spake and 
said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is 
thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to de- 
liver thee from the lions? 

21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live 
for ever. 

22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the 
lions* mouths, that they have not hurt me : forasmuch 
as before him innocency was found in me; and also 
before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. 

23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and 
commanded that they should take Daniel up out of 
the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and 
no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he 
believed in his God. 

24 fl And the king commanded, and they brought 
those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast 
them into the den of lions, them, their children, and 
their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, 
and brake all tiieir bones in pieces or ever they came 
at the bottom of the den. 

25 fl Then king Darius wrote unto all people, na- 



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tions, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; 
Peace be multiplied unto you. 

26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my 
kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of 
Daniel: for he w the living God, and stedfast for 
ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be de- 
stroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. 

2J He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh 
signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath 
delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. 

28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, 
and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. 

I will begin with the sixth chapter of Daniel to up- 
hold my statement concerning many Gods. In reading 
the Bible you will find that Daniel is spoken of as one 
of the captives. He had been captured, notwithstand- 
ing he belonged to the God of Israel of whom he was a 
follower. Jehovah performed some of his miracles 
through Daniel, that He might be exalted in the land. 
The greater part of the people of that time were serv- 
ants of other Gods, while some were what are called 
free men, that is, one who is free to the extent that he 
does not center his thoughts and belief on any God. A 
free spirit means a spirit that has passed out of the 
body and does not hold to any God. A man who does 



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not believe that life exists after we pass out of the body, 
is called an infidel. There are also spirits in the spirit 
land that are called infidels. 

When a man is free, the Gods begin to anxiously seek 
to win him, for they long to have those who are not yet 
in the circle. The story of the white man and his col- 
ored servant, discussing the origination of the peculiar 
feeling which the servant said troubled him, will suffice 
for an example. While out hunting, the master and his 
servant spied a flock of ducks on a nearby pond. Shoot- 
ing into the flock, they killed several, while many were 
only wounded. In great excitement and joy the colored 
servant dashed for the dead birds and was about to 
bring them to his master, when he was suddenly or- 
dered to stop and follow after the wounded prey. For, 
said the master, the dead are surely ours, but the 
wounded that are fluttering about may yet escape. Now, 
said the servant, I know why I have those peculiar feel- 
ings at times, and you have not. It is because Satan is 
working in me, to kill me, while you are already dead. 

DANIEL CAST INTO THE LIONS' DEN. 

King Darius was a free man. He did not belong to, or 



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obey any God. Daniel was under Darius, and obeyed 

the law of the God Israel. If King Darius had been 

controlled by any God, that God would surely have 

compelled him to make Daniel obey his laws concerning 

the worship of Gods. 

Some of the people that belonged to King Darius' 

kingdom, belonged to other Gods. Yet they knew that 

if a man intended to follow a certain God, he must obey 

the laws of that God or be disowned by him. For, 

notice, they said: 

We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, 
except we find it against him concerning the law of 
his God. 

Daniel 6:5. 

We further understand from this verse that they knew 
that there were a great many Gods : for they said, 

except we find it against him concerning the law of 
his God. 

Daniel 6 : 5. 

They knew that Daniel must obey the law of his God, 
or his God would disown him. This verse further 
proves that they also had Gods; they said: 

concerning the law of his God. 
putting special emphasis on "his." 



JO JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

It was a simple matter for anyone at that time to es- 
tablish a decree forbidding homage to anyone but the 
king. Thus Daniel was cast into the lions' den for wor- 
shiping his God instead of praying to Darius who had 
no God. 

7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, 
and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, 
have consulted together to establish a royal statute, 
and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask 
a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of 
thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 

Daniel 6 : 7. 

This passage shows plainly that Darius was a free man, 
for it says: 

whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for 
thirty days, save of thee, O king, 

If King Darius had been a follower of some God, they 
would undoubtedly have said, the laws of their God, or, 
the laws of our God, and not, 

thee, O king. 

The people who were laying this plot were not ig- 
norant because they went to an idol to worship ; the idol 
was simply to represent its God. The law of that God 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 71 

was, that his people should go before the idol to wor- 
ship. 

A decree went forth that every knee should bow to 
the king for thirty days. They knew that Daniel went 
to his chamber three times a day to worship. Some of 
those Gods are very strict, especially in a case such as 
Daniel's was. 

Daniel 6:16 — 

16 Then the king commanded, and they brought 
Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the 
king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou 
servest continually, he will deliver thee. 

It is remarkable to see how readily Darius credits 
reality and power to the God whom Daniel served. 

Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will de- 
liver thee. 

But still he remains a free man without allegiance to 
any God. 

Daniel 6 : 20 — 

20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a 
lamentable voice unto Daniel : and the king spake and 
said to Daniel, 'O Daniel, servant of the living God, 
is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to de- 
liver thee from the lions? ; ' 



72 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Again Darius is led to proclaim Daniel's God, a liv- 
ing God. Fearing and trembling he stoops to the 
mouth of the cave expecting to hear Daniel's voice 
from within ; thus showing his belief in a God who is 
able to deliver. His going to the den to inquire as to 
Daniel's welfare was not a spiritual impulse, it was 
merely human sympathy. He was not a follower of 
Daniel's God. 

In Daniel 6:22, it reads: 

22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the 
lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: 



Now if there were only one God, why did Daniel say, 
My God. 

It was because he knew that there were many Gods, 
and that his God was using him to educate the rest of 
the people ; a fact which is plainly shown in the follow- 
ing verses : 

25 ft Then king Darius wrote unto all people, na- 
tions, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; 
Peace be multiplied unto you. 

26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my 
kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of 
Daniel : for he is the living God, and steadfast for ever, 






THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 73 

and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, 
and his dominion shall be even unto the end. 

Daniel 6 : 25, 26. 

DANIEL INTERPRETS THE HAND-WRITING ON THE WALL. 

I will endeavor to further prove, not only the exist- 
ence of many Gods, but that they are Gods of intelli- 
gence, and not Gods of wood, iron, stone, gold or 
silver. 

The following verse is explained according to the 
worldly knowledge : 

Daniel 5 : 23 — 

23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of 
heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his 
house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, 
and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them : and 
thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of 
brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, 
nor know : and the God in whose hand thy breath is, 
and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: 

Upon first thought, this passage seems to teach that 
there were only material Gods, such as gold, iron, 
wood, etc. But let us understand it correctly. This 
was a conversation which Daniel had with the king 
after the hand- writing had appeared upon the wall. 
Darius did not belong to any God ; he was a free man, 



74 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

although there were idols in his kingdom. There were 
other men in his domain, who were servants of some 
Gods, but Darius was an entirely free man. The God 
of Israel used Daniel to educate the king. After he 
saw the hand-writing on the wall, he began to reason 
and tremble. 

When all the wise men of the kingdom had been 
called in, and after having utterly failed to read the 
writing, Daniel was summoned to appear before the 
king to interpret, if possible, the meaning of the words 
on the wall. This, of course, was nothing strange for 
Daniel to do, for it was the hand-writing of his own 
God. The other Gods might have written such words 
as these, providing they would have had the proper 
condition and acted under their special law. 

During the conversation, Daniel used these words: 

and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of 
brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, 
nor know: 

Daniel 5 : 23. 

How could he have used any better language than this 
to lead Darius towards the spiritual knowledge, for 
Darius did not belong to any God, although it says : 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 75 

and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of 
brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, 
nor know: 

He had to praise these material forms simply to 
please the people of his kingdom, for they were, what 
are called, idol worshipers, in other words, they prayed 
to Gods who demanded of them to go to some material 
form to perform their ceremonies. 

After the hand-writing had been seen on the wall, 
Daniel was called to read it. The king was very ig- 
norant regarding the laws of the Gods, therefore Dan- 
iel was obliged to use such language as he did. But 
later on, when the king became educated and the plot 
had been laid against Daniel that he should be cast into 
the lions' den, the king said: 

Thy God, whom thou servest continually, he will de- 
liver thee. 

Daniel 6 : 16. 

In the early morning the king hastened to the den and 
called for Daniel, expecting to hear an answer. The 
king, having grown in knowledge, wrote to all the dif- 
ferent classes of people in the kingdom and bade them 
to 



j6 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

fear before the God of Daniel: 

Daniel 6:26. 

The conversation between Daniel and the king dur- 
ing the time the hand-writing was visible on the wall, 
was recorded ; but the discussion which occurred after 
the writing, and after the king had become better edu- 
cated, was not written. Upon such arguments as the 
one which took place between Daniel and the king, the 
worldly people base their disputations. In truth, they 
have but the worldly knowledge and with that they 
hope to make all things clear to their intellect. Further- 
more, they assume that the Bible contradicts itself, and 
for that reason they find it impossible to establish their 
belief upon anything which it teaches. There are a 
number of instances in the Bible where it speaks of 
idols, as in the book of Daniel. If you wish to fully 
understand such portions you must obtain the knowl- 
edge of the God Jehovah, which is called the spiritual 
knowledge. How to gain that knowledge will be dis- 
cussed later. That which is called the spiritual knowl- 
edge belongs to the God Jehovah, to whom all other 
knowledges are worldly. 

A man who is in the flesh in earth life and succeeds 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT JJ 

in gaining sufficient knowledge to talk with but one 
God in the spheres, is said to have the spiritual knowl- 
edge. When I meet or hear of such a man, I generally 
say, he has the spiritual knowledge, just as he himself 
says he has, until he becomes educated. Daniel did the 
same when he talked with King Darius, and said : 

and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, 
of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor 
hear, nor know: 

Daniel 5 : 23. 

JEHOVAH ORDERS THE IMAGES TO BE HEWN DOWN. 

Deut. 12:3 — 

3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break 
their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye 
shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and 
destroy the names of them out of that place. 

My assumption that there are other Gods beside the 
God of Israel, is upheld in the above verse, and they 
are not idols of wood or stone, but reasonable, intelli- 
gent Gods, for it says : 

and ye shall hew down the graven images of their 
gods, 



yS JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

If those images were their Gods, why then should the 
writer say, 

hew down the graven images of their gods. 
Why not say, "hew down their Gods," and not "hew 
down the images of their Gods ?" It is simple to un- 
derstand that there must be many Gods, not only one. 
God Jehovah told Moses what he wished the people to 
do. Surely, God knew what he was talking about, and 
Moses spoke to the people just as he had received the! 
command. 

When I begin talking with a church member, he gen- 
erally says, there is but one God. If I ask who taught 
him thus, or whether he found it in the Bible, he usually 
answers, "the preacher told me so." What then can 
we further say, but that the preacher you have hired is 
preaching to suit you, and if he should not comply 
with that requirement you discharge him and employ a 
preacher who will. If your pastor is preaching for 
money, that has nothing to do with the Bible or the 
law of the God Jehovah. If he is preaching for what 
you are paying him, he talks to please you, or loses his 
position. Remember what the little boy said: "We 
pay our preacher a thousand dollars a year, and if he 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 79 

does not preach to suit us, we will hire one who will." 

Deut. 12:31 — 

31 Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God : 
for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, 
have they done unto their gods; for even their sons 
and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their 
gods. 

Here Moses warns the people of Israel against doing 
such things to Jehovah as the other people had done to 
their Gods, saying: 

for even their sons and their daughters they have 
burnt in the fire to their gods. 

and concludes with 

Thou shalt not do so. 

Could anyone suppose that those people were so igno- 
rant as to make their sons and daughters pass through 
fire for an idol — a piece of stone or wood? Would 
they have brought such a terrible torture to their chil- 
dren, if the Gods for whom they were making the of- 
fering would not have comforted them ? Could an idol 
bring peace and rest to a troubled soul ? 

A god can comfort a man through the spirit which 
that god imparts to him. A Roman Catholic, after 



80 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

having confessed his sins to the priest, departs, feeling 
more consoled. A Reformed church member goes to 
church but does not confess his sins to the preacher, yet 
he goes home comforted, just as did the Roman Cath- 
olic. 

WHY SOME PREACHERS PREACH THAT THERE IS BUT ONE 

GOD. 

The question may here arise, "Why do ministers 
teach that there is but one God ?" This question must 
be considered very thoughtfully. Allow me to explain 
by way of illustration why they do teach thus. For in- 
stance, you were the father of a family, and you were 
imposing upon your children. You know that you are 
not treating them right. Would you say to them that 
there are other fathers who treated their children bet- 
ter than you are treating those of your household? Or, 
would you tell them that you were the best and only 
good father, and that they should stay forever with 
you? Perhaps you would threaten them and say, if 
ever you leave my home you can never come back with- 
out a due repentance, and by so doing, you would 
frighten the children into subjection and obedience. 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 8l 

While on the other hand, if you were treating them 
better than any other father could possibly do, then it 
would be your pleasure to say, go and try whomso- 
ever you wish and see if I am not right when I say, I 
am the best father of all. 

To me it seems that a minister who is teaching that 
there is but one God, dares not teach that there are 
many Gods for fear his people would investigate and 
become enlightened. 

A minister who is following Jehovah need not be 
afraid to teach that there are many Gods, for that is 
what Jehovah himself teaches. The God Jehovah 
knows that the more a man investigates and becomes 
acquainted with other Gods, the sooner will that man 
be a true follower of Him. For instance, a man owned 
a factory and employed several hundred men, and 
would tell his employes that he is showing them more 
favor than any other employer possibly could. Would 
it not be to his advantage to have all his men leave 
his establishment for a time and come in contact with 
other employers? For, upon their return they would 
say, surely our master is kinder and better to us than 
any other master, therefore we will remain with 



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him. Can jou see, dear reader, what the employer 
gained by permitting his servants to investigate? But 
if, on the contrary, an employer were not treating his 
men as kind as some other boss, he would not be will- 
ing to have them work in some other establishment, 
but would undoubtedly threaten them, that if they 
ever quit his place of business they would never be 
rehired. He too well knows, that by going out to in- 
vestigate, his mean conduct and false pretensions would 
be brought to light. Thus this employer reaps nothing 
but shame and disgrace, while the former has a rich 
harvest of obedient and faithful servants. 

Can a man say he is following the true God, when, 
in fact, he is not acquainted with any other God with 
whom he can make a comparison? 

Paul says: 

21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 

Thess. 5:21. 

According to this statement, Paul did not forbid the 
people to investigate. 

If a minister is a follower of God Jehovah, why is 
he afraid to teach the truth? Why does he teach that 
there is but one God ? 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 83 

Is it not that he is afraid his people will investigate 
and become enlightened, and perhaps leave him? 

I am a follower of God Jehovah and dare say, that 
there are many Gods. 

Paul said : 

3 For the time will come when they will not en- 
dure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall 
they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears : 

II Tim. 4:3. 

Perhaps the preachers can hardly be blamed for 
preaching that there is but one God. No doubt many 
of them are aware of the fact that as soon as the 
people would find the truth, the preacher would lose 
his control over them. 

ADVICE TO FALSE TEACHERS. 

My advice to the one who is a follower of any other 
God but Jehovah, is, to teach that there is but one God 
and keep his people in that thought as long as he pos- 
sibly can ; and should he hear of any one teaching that 
there are many Gods, he ought to stir up the people of 
his congregation to kill that teacher as soon as possible. 



84 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

In the book of St. John 16:2, we read : 

yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will 
think that he doeth God service. 

EXISTENCE OF ANTI-CHRISTS. 

II John 1 : 7 — 

7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, 
who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. 
This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 

What is an anti-Christ? Jehovah, having sent his 
son Jesus Christ into the world to fulfill all that had 
been foretold of Him, caused the other Gods to trem- 
ble, for they saw that Jehovah was now gaining many 
followers, which they tried to counteract by sending 
out their Christs. Of this, St. John writes: 

18 Little children, it is the last time : and as ye have 
heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there 
many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last 
time. 

I John 2: 18. 

He evidently speaks about the anti-christs that were 
to come, for the Christ who was sent by Jehovah had 
foretold the coming of such. 

St. Matt. 24 : 5— 

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am 
Christ; and Siiall deceive many. 



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This passage shows plainly that there are very 
many Gods. Without a God there could be no Christ. 
The Christ that was sent by Jehovah, calls the other 
Christs, "anti-christs," literally meaning, "I am the 
true Christ, all others are false/ ' or, in other words, 
"they are Christs of other Gods, and those Gods are 
false." 

JEHOVAH WARNING HIS PROPHET. 

Deut. 18: 15-20 — 

15 If The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a 
Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like 
unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 

16 According to all that thou desirest of the Lord 
thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, 
Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, 
neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die 
not. 

17 And the Lord said unto me, They have well 
spoken that which they have spoken. 

18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among 
their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words 
in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that 
I shall command him. 

19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will 
not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in 
my name, I will require it of him. 



86 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak 
a word in my name, which I have not commanded 
him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other 
gods, even that prophet shall die. 

Here we find that God Jehovah, while talking with 
Moses, says: 

20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak 
a word in my name, which I have not commanded 
him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other 
gods, even that prophet shall die. 

Deut. 18:20. 

The prophet spoken of here is the Christ. Is it possi- 
ble that Jehovah could have been so foolish as to 
forbid his prophet to speak in the name of other Gods 
if there were no other Gods in existence? Or, was 
Jehovah under the impression that the prophet who 
was spoken of was so ignorant that he would attempt 
to speak in the name of an idol ? Would you suppose 
Jehovah to forbid the worshipping of other Gods, or 
the speaking in the name of other Gods, or forbid mak- 
ing covenants with other Gods if there were no other 
Gods in all the universe ? Would these laws have been 
made against a thing that never existed? If that be 
true, that these Gods never existed, nor yet exist at the 



THE FIRST COMMANDMENT 87 

present time, then I am ready and willing to give 
up the argument and ask, do I really exist? 



Cheer up my friend and do not back slide; 

Should you want some information, call your spirit 

guide. 
Though the worldly people at you do boo-hoo, 
Remember that Christ was a spiritualist too. 

There are people who condemn us every day ; 

They teach that the Bible means not what it does say ; 

Could I mean you were my wife, if you really were my 

brother ? 
Could Christ have said one thing, but rather meant 

another ? 

If worldly people say, of you they are ashamed, 

Remember that they treated Christ the same; 

If you would take a little time to read the Bible 

through, 
You would find that his beloved all were hated too. 



88 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

This is not all the story, nor all the song and speech, 
While traveling through this land, we practice what we 

preach : 
We allow the Saviour to lead us by the hand, 
The law He gave us was to do the Spirit's command. 



CHAPTER III. 
THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT. 

THOU SHALT NOT KILL. 

-f he fifth commandment, as well as the first, is rather 
a mystery to the worldly people. I will give but very 
little information about these two commandments, and 
the remaining eight I will not speak of at all in this 
book. 

There are various ideas concerning the. ten com- 
mandments which are a mystery to the world and noth- 
ing but a mist in the minds of all, save those who have 
spiritual knowledge. 

Before I give any explanations on the second com- 
mandment I wish to say to the reader, that if there is 
anything in this book that you cannot clearly under- 
stand, do not use the argument which they used over 
eighteen hundred years ago, for I know it is being 
used at the present time by a great many people who 
are followers of false Gods. If a follower of Jehovah 
comes in contact with one of the followers of another 



90 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

God, and, during their argument, the latter feels as 
though he were losing foothold on his side of the dis- 
cussion, he at once pronounces his opponent insane, or, 
to use his own phraseology, "that man is crazy." I 
would say to such an one, that such an argument is 
well enough, but it is somewhat old, for it was the 
means of -cowardly defense during Christ's time. 
Whenever I have invited a follower of another God to 
a debate, his answer invariably has been, "that man is 
crazy, pay no heed to what he says." Reader, perhaps 
you could get a better idea of how little real common 
sense there is in such an absurd remark as this by 
going to an insane asylum, and, seeing the patients 
going about the yard, step up and ask one of them if 
he is acquainted with the patient over yonder. If he 
answer yes, then inquire what may be the reason for 
yonder man's being in such a place as this and see if he 
will riot say, "that man is crazy." Then ask the patient 
whom you have halted if he is crazy, and see if he does 
not say, I am all right, but that fellow is crazy. Now 
go to yonder patient and ask him the identical question 
about the fellow you have just questioned, and, un- 
doubtedly, he will repeat the same story as did the 



THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT 91 

first. Yet they both are patients in the same asylum. 

The preachers tell me that I am crazy, and their 
members say the same. Then what more can I say 
but that they are using the only argument they have, 
the same as did the people some eighteen hundred 
years ago. 

The fifth commandment which the God of Israel 

gave to the people, is: 

Thou shalt not kill 

Exodus 20: 13. 

The Ammish church understands by this, that we 
should not kill even during war, and if they were com- 
pelled to face the enemy, they would walk in the ranks 
and allow themselves to be shot, but they would not 
kill a single man. I once asked a leader of this church 
if he had ever been compelled to go to war. He said 
that he had not, and that his church never had such 
conditions to contend with, for there had been no war 
of such importance as to require any action or dis- 
cussion along this line since the time of the introduc- 
tion of that religion in America, nor have they any 
history which tells of such an incident coming to their 
church in other countries. 



92 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

ORIGINATION OF THE DIFFERENT IDEAS ABOUT THE 
FIFTH COMMANDMENT. 

As the ideas of the first commandment are many and 
varied, so are they manifold regarding the fifth com- 
mandment. 

The real foundation of the different ideas concerning 
the fifth commandment, originated from the different 
Gods. One God tells his people that man should not 
kill even during war times. Anoth^ God teaches his 
people that it simply means, that man is not to kill his 
fellow-man without any cause, thus allowing man to 
judge whether he is justified in the act or not; that is 
to say, the Gods make man his own judge. 

THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENT. 

To get the real meaning of the fifth commandment 
we must find its source, or, whence it originated. It 
proceeded from the God of Israel. What the other 
Gods say about this commandment is of no importance 
whatever. The only interpreter, the only adviser, in 
fact, the only one who can expound the mystery of 
the commandment, is the One who gave it. And the 
only people who can ever keep the commandment ac- 
cording to its law, are the people of Israel ; that is, the 



THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT 93 

people who hold to the God of Israel, for the com- 
mandment was given by Him. A worldly man, or, 
those who belong to other Gods, cannot keep the com- 
mandment according to its law. 

IDOL WORSHIPERS. 

The God of Israel calls all who do not belong to 
Him, "worldly," and their wisdom He designates as 
"worldly knowledge" If we go into details regarding 
the question of worldly people, we find that a free man 
is one who does not belong to any God ; an idol wor- 
shiper is one who worships a God who has idols to 
represent him, and makes his people go before that 
idol to worship. Those who worship other Gods, bear 
the name of that special God, while some Gods are 
influenced to such an extent that they adopt the name 
of the church. 

MOSES KILLED A MAN. 

Exodus 2: 11-12 — 

ii 1f And it came to pass in those days, when 

Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, 
and looked on their burdens : and he spied an 
Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 



94 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

12 And he looked this way and that way, and when 
he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, 
and hid him in the sand. 

Moses killed the Egyptian ere God Jehovah had 
given this fifth commandment. We do not read of 
Moses ever being condemned for committing this ter- 
rible deed. He was a chosen man of God Jehovah, 
who reared him in Egypt and educated him for the 
purpose of bringing the children of Israel out of that 
land. There were several Gods working against Je- 
hovah at that time, but the wisdom of Jehovah so far 
exceeded their wisdom, that He was enabled to give 
to Moses the very knowledge he wished him to have. 

Considering this act of Moses' in the light of justice, 
we may ask, was it wrong for him to kill that lone 
Egyptian, when, in fact, the Egyptians had killed all 
the male children of the Israelites? Moses was not 
condemned for dealing as he did with his enemy, no 
more than did the Gods of Egypt condemn their people 
for killing the male children of the Israelites. 

MANY GODS IN EGYPT. 

Of the many broad assertions which will be found in 
this edition, I shall here state one of them. 



THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT 95 

It must be understood that there were many gods in 
Egypt during the childhood days of Moses. In fact, 
the number of these gods is so great, that, in one small 
village, there were as many as nine to be found. 

The gods at that age of the world often required 
of their people that they put their names upon slabs 
of stone or pieces of wood, which was similar to our 
custom of placing guide-posts. This was told to me 
by a class of spirits that never told me a lie. 

I will not go into any discussion as to the laws which 
those gods had at that time, nor of the laws which they 
have at the present time. 

M©SES ORDERING EVERY MAN TO KILL HIS OWN BROTHER. 

Exodus 32 : 26, 2*] — 

26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and 
said, Who is on the Lord's side? Let him come unto 
me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves 
together unto him. 

27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord 
God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, 
and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the 
camp, and slay every man his brother, and every 
man his companion, and every man his neighbour. 

In this passage, Moses orders each man who is on 



g6 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

the Lord's side to take his sword and kill his own 
brother and neighbor. But now Moses had been 
taught the commandment, 

Thou shalt not kill. 

Exodus 20: 13. 

Many writers have written about the mistakes of 
Moses, while several books which I have read, speak 
about this special incident. 

As I said before, Moses had the commandment, and 
not more than forty days hence, he ordered those who 
were on the Lord's side to kill their own brothers, caus- 
ing about three thousand men to fall by the sword 
that day. In reading the 27th verse you will find that 
Moses says, 

Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, 

Exodus 32 : 27. 

leading us to the thought that possibly God was quite 
changeable or very unjust, for at one time He gave 
the commandment, 
Thou shalt not kill. 

and now, only forty days afterward, He gives a com- 
mandment to the same man, Moses, and says: 



THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT 97 

slay every man his brother, and every man his com- 
panion, and every man his neighbour. 

Exo. 32 : 2J. 

An illustration will perhaps make it clearer to the 
reader. A father sent his son to watch the hogs, that 
they might not break through the fence. The son, 
finding it impossible to stop the hogs' persistent efforts 
to escape, came to his father and complained of their 
behavior. After having made several complaints, the 
boy could endure it no longer, and finally threatened 
to kill the hogs if they did not stop breaking through 
the fence. The father hearing of his son's intent, said : 
"My boy, do not kill my cattle, but have patience, per- 
haps they will soon stop going through the fence." 
But again the son complains, upon which it dawns 
upon the father that all that remained to be done, was 
to kill the hog that ventures through the opening first. 
The father, thereupon, orders the lad to kill that one 
which leads the others to go out. At first the boy was 
commanded not to kill ; the father was the judge. But 
when he received the command to kill, he obeyed. 
Therefore the boy was justified in the deed, even 
though it meant the shedding of blood. 



98 . JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Moses did not sin when he ordered the men who 
were on the Lord's side "to kill." He had been com- 
manded to do so. If he had not given the orders just 
as he received them, he would have sinned against 
the God of Israel. The commandment, "thou shalt not 
kill," means just what it says. 

Jehovah was not making a commandment for him- 
self ; He made it for the people, for he said : 

Thou shalt not kill. 

making it as brief as He possibly could. If the com- 
mandment had been written, "thou shalt not kill until 
I command you," the worldly people who have the 
worldly knowledge would have understood it a little 
better. 

The reader may wonder how it is possible for any- 
one to be "commanded" at this age of the world, or, 
if it is possible to establish communications with the 
God of Israel at the present time. There is a way to 
receive a message, or, so called communication from 
the God of Israel and also from the other Gods. This 
I shall discuss later. 



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DAVID KILLING THE MESSENGER. 

II Samuel 1 : 14-16 — 

14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not 
afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the 
Lord's anointed? 

15 And David called one of the young men, and 
said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him 
that he died. 

16 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon 
thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, 
saying, I have slain the Lord's anointed. 

THE KILLING OF THE MESSENGER FROM A WORLDLY 
VIEWPOINT. 

Let us first consider this passage of Scripture ac- 
cording to the worldly knowledge and then in the light 
of the spiritual knowledge. 

From a worldly standpoint, it was a terrible crime 
which King David committed in killing that young 
man who brought him the news that Saul was dead. 
Surely, the young man thought he was doing David a 
great favor, for he knew that Saul was an enemy of 
David, often seeking to take the young ruler's life. 
This messenger was in the battle with Saul and very 
near when the conquered monarch tried to kill himself. 

LcfC. 



IOO JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

While the helpless king was leaning on his weapon 
with which he had fought, his weight not being suf- 
ficient to thrust it through his body, he looked about 
him, and, seeing the young man near by, commanded 
him to stand on him and thus cause the deadly weapon 
to do its ghastly work. In relating the news to David, 
the young man also added: 

I was sure that he could not live after that he was 
fallen : 

II Samuel i : 10. 

thinking, undoubtedly, that all which he did was just 
and right. He also brought the crown which the mon- 
arch had worn, and the bracelets that once adorned his 
stately arms. After doing all this, David had him 
killed. For, said he, you have killed the Lord's an- 
nointed. 

THE KILLING OF THE MESSENGER FROM THE VIEWPOINT 
OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE. 

I will endeavor to explain to the worldly man the 
spiritual interpretation of this passage of Scripture. 
Remember the old saying : "It is hard to talk to a blind 
man about colors" ; or, to "a deaf man about different 



THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT IOI 

sounds." The spirit of the God Jehovah had left Saul. 
Nevertheless, he had a vast host of followers, which 
alone brought upon him the greatest honor from the 
people of his kingdom. David, at this time, had been 
driven from place to place by the jealous Saul. There- 
fore, the young messenger undoubtedly preferred to 
remain with the king upon whom the honor and praise 
of the world had been bestowed, showing a most nat- 
ural desire to love the pride of the world more than the 
honor of God Jehovah. But finally Saul engages in 
battle with one of his bitterest enemies, the Philistines. 
During this terrible slaughter Saul's army was utterly 
destroyed, causing the downfall of king and kingdom. 
The young messenger now thought, since the king had 
met his end, the best thing to do was to seek to ob- 
tain David's favor and good will. This he thought to 
accomplish by taking the crown from the defeated 
monarch's head, as w r ell as the bracelets from his arms, 
and upon his return from war present them to the new 
king. Having returned home, the young man pre- 
sented himself to David, and, after casting the treas- 
ures at his feet, he sought to make excuses for his 
actions by saying: 



102 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I 
was sure that he could not live after that he was 
fallen : 

II Samuel 1 : 10. 
His object was mainly to deceive David, which, if he 
had succeeded in doing, would not have been an of- 
fense against David alone, but also against the God of 
David, in which case the other Gods would have re- 
joiced and said, "how easily David and his God were 
deceived." 

I have thus discussed the two sides of this question. 
First, expressing myself as a worldly man would, and 
then according to the thought of the spiritual man. 

When I considered the spiritual side, I expressed 
myself as best I could to the man who has but the 
worldly knowledge. If I would have had a conversa- 
tion with a spirit of Jehovah or a man who had the 
spiritual knowledge, the conversation would have been 
entirely different. 

ELIJAH KILLING THE PROPHETS OF BAAL. 

I Kings 18:40 — 

40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets 
of Baal ; let not one of them escape. And they took 






THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT IO3 

them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook 
Kishon, and slew them there. 

In this passage of Scripture we find that Elijah killed 
the prophets of Baal. Baal was a God, and those 
prophets whom Elijah killed were Baal's prophets. 
It was Jehovah himself who, wishing to take revenge, 
caused Elijah to kill these prophets. I would very 
much like to present the tw T o side^ of the question, just 
as I did in King David's case, but will not do so at this 
time. Perhaps the following will suffice to aid the 
reader to a better understanding. If you were drifting 
down a stream in a boat and wished to stop at a cer- 
tain place to fasten your boat to a stake, it would not 
make any difference how small that stake would be if 
only it held your boat. It would not be necessary to 
employ a hundred stakes if but the one were sufficient 
to secure your craft. But you would have some ad- 
vantage if you were permitted to make use of a number 
of them, for, if a man in another boat should pass, he 
would take notice of you sooner, and undoubtedly 
would stop and begin to question you as to your 
position. 



104 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

"Thou shalt not kill," is a hard old pill 
When the enemy is standing around 
With gun in hand, waiting command, 
Ready to shoot you right down. 

Like hail from the sky, the bullets fly, 
And riders are prancing around; 
Then think of your wife and child in life ; 
Unheeded you fall to the ground. 

Remember the strife we have in life, 
While nations rise in war ; 
Bullets so strange, at fifteen mile range, 
In torrents down over you pour. 

Jehovah did hand to Moses the command, 
My child, "Thou shalt not kill," 
Tis easily said, soon stored in the head, 
But difficult to fulfill. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Christ's sermon on the mount. 

According to St. Matthew, chapters 5-7 — 

CHAP. V. 

^ND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a 
mountain; and when he was set, his disciples came 
unto him : 

2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, say- 
ing, 

3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the 
kingdom of heaven. 

4 Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall be 
comforted. 

5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the 
earth. 

6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after 
righteousness : for they shall be filled. 

7 Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain 
mercy. 

8 Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see 
God. 

9 Blessed are the peace-makers : for they shall be 
called the children of God. 

10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for right- 
eousness' sake : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 



106 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

ii Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and 
persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against 
you falsely, for my sake. 

12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is 
your reward in heaven : for so persecuted they the 
prophets which were before you. 

13 ff Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt 
have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? 
it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast 
out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 

14 Ye are the light of the" world. A city that is 
set on a hill cannot be hid. 

15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under 
a bushel, but on a candlestick ; and it giveth light unto 
all that are in the house. 

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they 
may see your good works, and glorify your Father 
which is in heaven. 

17 fl Think not that I am come to destroy the 
law, or the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but 
to fulfil. 

18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth 
pass, one jot or one little shall in no wise pass from 
the law, till all be fulfilled. 

19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these 
least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall 
be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but 
whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall 
be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 

20 For I say unto you, That except your righteous- 



CHRIST S SERMON ON THE MOUNT IO7 

ness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and 
Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom 
of heaven. 

21 fl Ye have heard that it was said by them of old 
time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill 
shall be in danger of the judgment: 

22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry 
with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger 
of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his 
brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; but 
whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger 
of hell-fire. 

23 Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, 
and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught 
against thee, 

24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy 
way ; firsf be reconciled to thy brother, and then come 
and offer thy gift. 

25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou 
art in the way with him; lest at any time the ad- 
versary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge de- 
liver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. 

26 Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means 
come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost 
farthing. 

27 fl Ye have heard that it was said by them of old 
time, Thou shalt not commit adultery : 

28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on 
a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery 
with her already in his heart. 



I0 g JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, 
and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee 
that one of thy members should perish, and not that 
thy whole body should be cast into hell. 

30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, 
and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that 
one of thy members should perish, and not that 
thy whole body should be cast into hell. 

31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away 
his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 

32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put 
away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, 
causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall 
marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. 

33 If Again, ye have heard that it hath been said 
by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, 
but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : 

34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither 
by heaven; for it is God's throne: 

35 Nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool : neither 
by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King: 

36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head; because 
thou canst not make one hair white or black. 

37 But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, 
nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of 
evil. 

38 fl" Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye 
for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 

39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil; but 



CHRIST S SERMON ON THE MOUNT IO9 

whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn 
to him the other also. 

40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and 
take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. 

41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, 
go with him twain. 

42 Give to him that asketh thee; and from him 
that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. 

43 ft Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou 
shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: 

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless 
them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, 
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and 
persecute you; 

45 That ye may be the children of your Father 
which is in heaven : for he maketh his sun to rise 
on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the 
just and on the unjust. 

46 For if ye love them which love you, what re- 
ward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye 
more than others? do not even the publicans so? 

48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father 
which is in heaven is perfect. 

CHAP. VI. 

HPAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, 
to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no reward 
of your Father which is in heaven. 



IIO JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

2 Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not 
sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in 
the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may 
have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have 
their reward. 

3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand 
know what thy right hand doeth; 

4 That thine alms may be in secret : and thy Father, 
which seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee 
openly. 

5 ft And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as 
the hyprocrites are: for they love to pray standing 
in the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, 
that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, 
They have their reward. 

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy 
closet ; and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy 
Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which 
seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. 

7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as 
the heathen do: for they think that they shall be 
heard for their much speaking. 

8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your 
Father knoweth what things ye have need of before 
ye ask him. 

9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father 
which art in heaven; hallowed be thy name. 

io Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, 
as it is in heaven. 

II Give us this day our daily bread. 



CHRIST S SERMON ON THE MOUNT 1 1 1 

12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive out 
debtors. 

13 And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us 
from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, 
and the glory, for ever. Amen. 

14 fl For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your 
heavenly Father will also forgive you. 

15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, 
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 

16 fi" Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypo- 
crites, of a sad countenance : for they disfigure their 
faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily 
I say unto you, They have their reward. 

17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, 
and wash thy face; 

18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto 
thy Father which is in secret : and thy Father, which 
seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. 

19 fl Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon 
earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where 
thieves break through and steal : 

20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, 
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where 
thieves do not break through nor steal : 

21 For where your treasure is, there will your 
heart be also. 

22 The light of the body is the eye; if therefore 
thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of 
light. 



112 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be 
full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee 
be darkness, how great is that darkness ! 

24 ft No man can serve two masters; for either he 
will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will 
hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot 
serve God and mammon. 

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for 
your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; 
nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not 
the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 

26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, 
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your 
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much 
better than they? 

27 Which of you by taking thought can add one 
cubit unto his stature? 

28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Con- 
sider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil 
not, neither do they spin: 

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon 
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the 
field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the 
oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little 
faith? 

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall 
we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal 
shall we be clothed? 






CHRIST S SERMON ON THE MOUNT II3 

2,2 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) 
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need 
of all these things. 

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his 
righteousness; and all these things shall be added 
unto you. 

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for 
the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. 
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 



CHAPTER VII. 

JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. 

^ 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be 
judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be 
measured to you again. 

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy 
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is 
in thine own eye? 

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull 
out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a beam is 
in thine own eye? 

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of 
thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast 
out the mote out of thy brother's eye. 

6 ff Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, 
neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they 
trample them under their feet, and turn again and 
rend you. 



114 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

7 fl Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and 
ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that 
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be 
opened. 

9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask 
bread, will he give him a stone? 

io Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 

ii If ye then, being evil, know how to give good 
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your 
Father which is in heaven give good things to them 
that ask him? 

12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that 
men should do to you, do ye even so to them ; for this 
is the law and the prophets. 

13 ft Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the 
gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruc- 
tion, and many there be which go in thereat: 

14 Because strait is the gate, and- narrow is the way, 
which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 

15 fl Beware of false prophets, which come to you 
in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening 
wolves. 

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men 
gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good 
fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither 
can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 



CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT II 5 

19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is 
hewn down, and cast into the fire. 

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 

21 ff Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, 
shall enter unto the kingdom of heaven ; but he that 
doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, 
have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy. name 
have cast out devils? and in thy name done many, 
wonderful works? 

23 And then will I profess unto them, I never 
knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 

24 fl Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of 
mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise 
man, which built his house upon a rock: 

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, 
and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it 
fell not : for it was founded upon a rock. 

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of 
mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a 
foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : 

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, 
and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it 
fell : and great was the fall of it. 

28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these 
sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine : 

29 For he taught them as one having authority, 
and not as the scribes. 



Il6 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

To enlighten the reader somewhat on the foregoing 
verses, allow me to say, that some of the passages of 
Scripture have reference to this world only, while some 
refer to the new heaven, and others to the old heaven. 
Some passages are spoken in the spiritual knowledge, 
while others are in the worldly knowledge. 

The reader may think my repetition is quite fre- 
quent, and true it is, I do repeat often ; but, neverthe- 
less, I think it very essential. Especially so with the 
statement that there are two kinds of knowledge. Do 
you know what the two kinds of knowledge are? Do 
you know what the worldly and what the spiritual 
knowledge are ? Do you think it absurd because I re- 
peat some things so often? 

In reading Scripture you will find that some state- 
ments are repeated again and again, and yet they re- 
main to be understood by many. 

THE TWO KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE. 

I will explain of what the spiritual knowledge con- 
sists. If a man possess what is called the spiritual 
knowledge, he may talk with the spirits of the God Je- 
hovah, while one who has the worldly knowledge may 



CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT II7 

converse with any of the Gods but Jehovah. To 
Him they have no access. For instance, a man learns 
to be a blacksmith or a carpenter, or, perhaps studies 
to be a public-school teacher ; perchance he becomes an 
astronomer, a lawyer, or a doctor. If he rises to any 
of these or other professions of this world, he has what 
we would call a worldly knowledge. Anything which 
one man is able to teach to another bears this 
title. 

Therefore, when I teach you how to talk with the 
spirits who are within the spheres, including all the 
Gods as well as the free spirits within the same spheres, 
it is only the worldly knowledge which you receive. 
But to gain the spiritual knowledge, that is, talking 
with the spirits of Jehovah, is something that one man 
cannot teach another. 

I know that I have the spiritual knowledge, but I 
cannot teach it. I can simply tell what to do in order 
to converse with Him who is able to teach all who are 
willing. If a man were to ask me to teach him the 
spiritual knowledge, or, in other words, give him the 
spiritual knowledge, I would be obliged to frankly 
say, I can not. But I could possibly instruct him what 



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to do in order to get into communication with the One 
who "giveth freely." 

Christ's sermon on the mount can not be thoroughly 
understood unless you have the spiritual knowledge. 
There are none of Christ's teachings that are spoken in 
the spiritual knowledge that can be understood by one 
who is only worldly minded. 

Perhaps this illustration would give a better idea to 
the reader. If a man delivered an oration to an audi- 
ence, and would speak it half in the- English and half 
in the German language, and if the audience could 
understand both English and German, they would re- 
ceive as much benefit as though it were all spoken in 
one language; but if the audience could understand 
but one language, they would not receive much benefit 
from what had been spoken. 

Another illustration will perhaps aid the reader to 
grasp a still better idea. If a man would speak before 
an audience in one language only, he could say half of 
his speech in the Spiritual knowledge and half in the 
worldly knowledge. Then if the audience could under- 
stand but the one knowledge, they would not receive 
much benefit of that which was spoken, and yet the 



CHRIST S SERMON ON THE MOUNT 1 19 

speech was spoken all in one language, but in the two 
kinds of knowledge. 

Furthermore, if a declamation were recited in three 
different languages, as, the English, the German and 
the French. If the worldly man understood these 
three languages, he then would know what was being 
said providing it were all spoken in the worldly knowl- 
edge. But if some parts of the discourse were spoken 
in the spiritual knowledge, then the worldly man would 
not receive much benefit therefrom, although he under- 
stood the worldly part of those three languages. 

In the foregoing illustrations I have tried to lead the 
reader to understand that the Spiritual knowledge is 
not a language, such as Irish, French, Slavish, German, 
English, or any other language. The Spiritual mean- 
ing may be expressed in any language. 

If a man were able to recite a poem in ten different 
languages, dividing the poem into ten equal parts, and 
each part were spoken in a different language, he could 
then again subdivide these parts and speak half in the 
spiritual and half in the worldly knowledge providing 
he was educated to that effect. The spiritual knowl- 
edge is so interwoven with the worldly, that a man 



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cannot determine it unless he possesses this knowl- 
edge. 

So it is with the man who has but one knowledge ; 
he can not understand the teachings of Christ, for they 
are spoken partly in the spiritual and partly in the 
worldly knowledges. The great mystery of the Bible 
is, that it is spoken in two kinds of knowledge. For 
this reason the worldly man can not clearly understand 
what it teaches. Many a man has studied the Bible 
all his life and finally pronounced it a mystery. 

If the Bible were written in the spiritual knowledge 
only, it would not interest the worldly man at all. 
Therefore, to win back Adam and Eve, as well as their 
offspring, which we are, Jehovah had the Bible written 
in a mysterious way, seeking to interest the worldly 
man sufficiently to have him discuss such problems as 
are put forth in its pages. 

All that I ask of the reader is to give this book a 
thorough investigation and a fair trial, and as far as 
possible obey what it says, or, what the Bible says, for 
they both teach the same, just as the epistle of St. John 
or any other epistle teaches the same as Christ taught 
concerning the spiritual knowledge. 



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As I have said before, with reference to the passages 
of Scriptures in Christ's sermon on the mount, some 
have to do with the new heaven and earth, while 
others have reference to the old heaven and earth. 
Then again, some are spoken in the spiritual knowl- 
edge, and some in the worldly knowledge 

LAWS OF THE GOD JEHOVAH. 

Each God has his law, requiring a certain condition 
before he consents to talk with man. 

Some of the laws of the God Jehovah are as follows : 

St. Matt. 5 : 39— 

39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : 
but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn 
to him the other also. 

This passage gives an idea of what the worldly man 
must do in order to talk with the Holy Ghost. If a man 
should strike you on the one cheek, you must offer the 
other also ; indicating that man must love his enemies. 

St. Matt. 5 : 40— 

40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and 
take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. 

This portion of Scripture sets forth the same prin- 



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ciple as the above, namely, to love our enemies. The 
worldly man may think it difficult to love his enemy; 
but Christ goes still farther in his exhortations, as in 
St. Matt. 5 : 43~44— 

43 11 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou 
shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless 
them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, 
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and 
persecute you. 

This distinctly tells us that man must love his ene- 
mies before he is accepted by the God of Israel. It 
does not mean that man should only pretend to love his 
enemy. It is an emphatic statement — "love your 
enemy." But how can we love a man whom we hate, 
any more than we can hate anyone whom we love? 
When a man belongs to the world he does not love his 
enemies, but when he becomes a follower of the God 
Jehovah, all hatred vanishes, for he will obey the 
entreaty 

Love your enemies, do good to them which hate 
you. 

St. Luke 6 : 27. 

When a man complies with this passage of Scripture 






CHRIST S SERMON ON THE MOUNT I23 

he is converted to the God of Israel, for he cannot love 
his enemy unless he is regenerated and born again. 
So, dear reader, if you are converted to Jehovah, you 
cannot hate your enemies. 

Perhaps you wonder what sort of change takes 
place when a man is transformed from this world to 
Jehovah. Allow me to explain this change as briefly 
as possible. When a man belongs to the world, it 
means that he belongs to all the Gods, as well as all the 
free spirits and everything within the spheres (called 
the seven spheres) . Conversion makes a change in man. 
Adam was changed when he sinned. He lost the 
spiritual knowledge and gained the worldly. He and 
his help-mate were naked and were not ashamed, but 
after the fall they beheld each other's shame. If a 
man is converted to Israel, he is brought back and put 
in the same state that Adam and Eve were before they 
sinned. The spirit of God Jehovah will then talk with 
him just as it did to Adam, the prophets, the apostles 
find their followers. 

The following verses will give a fair understanding 
of what is required of the worldly man : 

30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of 



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him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 

31 And as ye would that men should do to you, 
do ye also to them likewise. 

32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank 
have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. 

S3 And if ye do good to them which do good to 
you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even 
the same. 

34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to 
receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to 
sinners, to receive as much again. 

35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and 
lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward 
shall be great, and ye shall be children of the High- 
est: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 

St. Luke 6 : 30-35. 

This, then, is the first requirement ; or, man must at 
least be in the condition to meet this requirement at 
any time, before he can possibly expect the Holy 
Ghost to come and commune with him: 

To my mind, there is sufficient knowledge in these 
few verses for any one to understand at least some of 
the requirements. Nevertheless, I will endeavor to 
impress it upon the mind of the reader more forcibly 
by mere repetition, for that is what the Scripture does, 



CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT 1 25 

and yet the worldly people fail to understand its mys- 
teries. 

PREPARING FOR THE MORROW. 

Man must give up everything that he possesses on 
earth. The man who gave his last ten cents to some 
poor individual, gave just as much as the man who 
gave his last ten thousand dollars. Each gave all 
that he had. But if the man who had ten thousand 
dollars had given but nine thousand, the man who gave 
the ten cents would have been the greater giver, for he 
gave all that he had, while the other only gave a part. 
Man must be in the condition to sacrifice all that he 
has if he wishes the spirit of the God of Israel to 
commune with him. When the Holy Ghost begins to 
speak, man must do as he is bidden. 

The following passage will undoubtedly enlighten 
the reader along this line of thought : 

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall 
we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal 
shall we be clothed? 

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek) : 
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need 
of all these things. 

S3 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his 



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righteousness; and all these things shall be added 
unto you. 

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for 
the morrow shall take thought for the things of it- 
self. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

St. Matt. 6:31-34. 

Many people say, if a man were to give all that he 
possessed, he would soon be in dire want. It says : 
Take therefore no thought for the morrow : 

St. Matt. 6 : 34. 

To the worldly man this verse would mean, that we 
ought not build a home for ourselves or loved ones. 
But he overlooks the promise which follows-; 

S3 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his 
righteousness: and all these things shall be added 
unto you. 

St. Matt. 6 : 33. 

This portion of Scripture does not say man should 
live in poverty, nor does it say that he should not heed 
the future ; it simply says : 

and all these things shall be added unto you, 

that is, you should not add anything to yourself. The 
Spirit will guide you and add unto you all that is 
needed for your welfare. The verse which says you 



CHRIST S SERMON ON THE MOUNT 1 27 

should give up everything on earth, does not mean that 
you are not allowed any possessions, but that you must 
wait until the Spirit allows you to have them — you are 
not to add them unto yourself. For example : If you 
were walking along the street and had ten dollars in 
your pocket, and a man should ask you to loan him 
five, you would be obliged to give the sum without ask- 
ing any questions, unless the Spirit would otherwise 
state. Were another individual to ask for the remain- 
ing five, you would be led to give even that without 
further questioning, unless the Spirit told you other- 
wise. To further explain the thought; if you were 
walking along the highway and should meet a man 
who would strike you with his fist and throw you into 
the ditch, you would not dare say a word to abuse him, 
but pray for him who had misused you, unless the 
Spirit would tell you to defend yourself. 

Often the remark is made that such a religion of 
entire surrender would be good for someone who has 
no possessions, for they would have nothing to sur- 
render — as though our worldly goods were all that we 
must sacrifice. To my mind, giving up the worldly 
possessions is the easiest part. But the struggle be- 



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gins when you put off the pride of the world and wear 
the clothes which the Spirit tells you to wear, and 
speak the words which the Spirit commands you to 
speak. You yourself dare not judge what your conver- 
sation is to be, you must ask the Spirit what you should 
say. 

THE TEACHING OF THE SPIRIT. 

I will give you a few passages of Scripture in which 
it speaks of the spiritual and worldly knowledges. 

St. John 14: 16, 17, 26, 2,7 — 

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give 
you another Comforter, that he may abide with you 
for ever ; 

17 Even the Spirit of Truth : whom the world can- 
not receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth 
him : but ye know him ; for he dwelleth with you, and 
shall be in you. 

26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach 
you all things, and bring all things tp your remem- 
brance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 

27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto 
you : not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let 
not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 



Christ's sermon on the mount 129 

St. John 15: 18, 19, 26 — 

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated 
me before it hated you. 

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love 
his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I 
have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world 
hateth you. 

26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will 
send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of 
truth, which proceedetb from the Father, he shall 
testify of me: 

St. John 16: 7, 8, 13 — 

7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient 
for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the 
Comforter .will not come unto you; but if I depart, 
I will send him unto you. 

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world 
of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 

13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, 
he will guide you into all truth : for he shall not 
speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that 
shall he speak ; and he will shew you things to come. 

These few verses which I have referred to here are 
evidences enough, as far as Bible evidence is con- 
cerned, that, to more fully understand, you must abide 
by the laws of Israel if you wish to receive the Spirit 



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and Its knowledge which will instruct you in all ways. 
A few passages from the epistles will be found quite 
helpful. 

1 Cor. 2 : 4-6 — 

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with 
enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration 
of the Spirit and of power: 

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom 
of men, but in the power of God. 

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are 
perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the 
princes of this world, that come to nought: 

I John 2 : 27 — 

27 But the anointing which ye have received of him 
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach 
you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all 
things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath 
taught you, ye shall abide in him. 

The portions from the epistles are the same as those 
from St. John. I have simply quoted them here be- 
cause many preachers say, that what St. John wrote, 
was only promised to the Apostles. Therefore, I put 
in the above passages from the epistles. If you will 
study these verses carefully, you will find that each in- 



CHRIST S SERMON ON THE MOUNT I3I 

dividual who was converted to the God of Israel, re- 
ceived that teaching-spirit. 



If nature is the only God there be, 

And governs all the things we see, 
The mystery for us to unfold 

Is, not to complain of the rich man's gold. 
They are grasping the treasures each day, 

For the future they store it away, 
They say to their comrades, 'tis simply love, 

I'll meet you as brother in heaven above. 
At first 'twas Adam's, the joyous treasure — 

To dress the garden to his pleasure ; 
But alas, Jehovah to him had said, 

"By the sweat of thy brow, thou shalt earn thy 
bread." 



CHAPTER V. 

COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS PROVED BY THE BIBLE. 

This is a subject which the worldly man ought to 
consider very closely. If it is possible for man to com- 
mune with the spirits, it is then evident that we exist 
after death. 

Very many people at the present time believe that 
man's life ends at the time of death, until another 
mysterious combination takes place and produces life 
again. Thus, fire and water coming in contact with 
each other produce steam ; the steam moves the engine, 
providing all the machinery is in proper condition. So 
this class of people say, that this combination of which 
man is composed, creates life ; and if one part of that 
combination fails, life ceases at once. 

Some people believe in evolution but fail to produce 
biblical proof for such a belief, while spiritualism is 
taught and emphasized throughout the entire book. 
After we have found sufficient evidence in the Scrip- 
ture concerning spiritualism, we will then use reason, 
experience and good judgment. 



COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS I33 

TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST. 

St. Mark 9 : 2-7— 

2 ff And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, 
and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an 
high mountain apart by themselves : and he was trans- 
figured before, them. 

3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white 
as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. 

4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses : 
and they were talking with Jesus. 

5 And Peter answered and said unto Jesus, Master, 
it is good for us to be here: and let us make three 
tabernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one 
for Elias. 

6 For he wist not what to say; for they were sore 
afraid. 

7 And there was a cloud that oversnadowed them: 
and a voice came out of the cloud saying, This is my 
beloved Son : hear him. 

From the thought of these verses, Christ must have 
talked with Moses and Elias. The spirits of these two 
prophets came to Christ on the mountain while Peter, 
James and John were there with him. 

If it is sin to talk with spirits, then Christ must be 
classed with the sinners, for He not only spoke with 
the spirits, but taught his three disciples to do like- 



134 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

wise. But if it were not a sin for Christ to talk with 
the spirits, why should it be for us? Did not Christ 
say, "the works that I do, shall ye do also?'' Would 
Christ have done anything which would be sinful for 
us to do? 

Some people assume, that although Christ spoke 
with the spirits, it is impossible for us to do so. But 
let us see what Christ says, according to : 

St. John 14: 12 — 

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth 
on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and 
greater works than these shall he do; because I go 
unto my Father. 

Therefore, it is not impossible for man to talk with 
the spirits any more than it was impossible for Christ 
to talk with Moses and Elias on the mountain. If we 
wish to discard one word of Christ's teaching, we 
might just as well discard it all, for one word is as 
valuable as another. But, understand, this passage of 
Scripture does not have reference to all people. It 
says: 

He that believeth on me. 



COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS 1 35 

Therefore, it is not impossible for any man to do the 
works which Christ did, if he believe in Him. 

To be a believer in Christ, means one who obeys His 
laws. If we do not obey the laws, we are not believers. 
There are some people who believe that Christ came in 
the flesh, but they would never humble themselves be- 
fore Christ, nor give up their human pride, or sacrifice 
any worldly possessions for Him. 

If a man is a believer in the Christ of God Jehovah, 
he is able to converse with the spirits of Jehovah. If 
a man abides by the law of any other God, he then can 
speak with the spirits of that God. Thus, as every God 
has his law, so the free spirits (termed Modern Spirit- 
ualism) have their laws. 

What is Modern Spiritualism ? 

It is communing with the spirits who were in the 
flesh on this earth at some previous time. For, remem- 
ber that those spirits which existed before the creation 
of the old heaven, never were upon this earth in fleshly 
form, save a few that were reincarnated. The law, or, 
co-called condition, which is required to talk with the 
free spirits, is different from the law of any other God. 



I36 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

The abode of the free spirits is in the old heaven. The 
condition required to talk with them is a special one. 
Furthermore, it requires a separate condition for each 
society which these free spirits have among themselves. 
The. old heaven is divided into seven parts, called 
spheres ; just as a circle is divided into three hundred 
and sixty degrees. The first sphere has perhaps thou- 
sands of societies. These societies vary but little in 
condition. 

PREACHING TO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON. 

I will return again to the discussion of the possibility 
of communing with the spirits. In I Peter 3 : 19-20, 
we read: 

19 By which also he went and preached unto the 
spirits in prison; 

20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once 
tbe longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, 
while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, 
eight souls were saved by water. 

We are here led to the thought that Christ preached to 
the dead. Now, if it had only been Peter who spoke 
to these spirits, ought we not to be able to do the 
same? But it was Christ. Therefore, it is not at 



COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS I37 

all impossible for us to converse with spirits at the 
present time, providing we believe in the Son of God 
Jehovah. Remember the passage of Scripture which 
says : 

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth 
on me, the works that I do shall he do also. 

St. John 14: 12. 

HIRING THE MINISTER. 

Should a church-member, perchance, read this book 
and say, "our minister never quoted these passages," 
remember, that if you have hired him to preach, he is 
working for his pay by saying things to please you. 
If he does not preach to your desire (for he is your 
hired servant), you discharge him. You cannot hire, 
consequently not discharge, a minister of God Jehovah, 
for he does not labor for silver or gold. 

The reader will notice my frequent repetition. How 
else could I bring people to understand, since in their 
ignorance they hire, and then discharge their minister 
for not preaching as they had wished him to preach; 
yet they declare that God sent that special individual to 
preach the Gospel to them. 



I38 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Some Gods send their ministers into the world and 
receive this sort of abuse. But God Johovah will not 
endure that kind of treatment. 

PREACHING TO THE DEAD. 

To further prove the reality of conversing with spir- 
its, let us study I Peter 4 : 6 — 

6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also 
to them that are dead, that they might be judged ac- 
cording to men in the flesh, but live according to God 
in the Spirit. 

Here also they preached to the dead. 

Jude 9— 

9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with 
the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst 
not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, 
The Lord rebuke thee. 

How did St. Jude know that Michael the archangel 
was disputing with the Devil if he did not see or hear 
them? Or did some one perhaps witness the discus- 
sion and tell it to him? How was it possible for him 
to know that they had a dispute? If a spirit informed 



COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS 1 39 

him of the fact, then he must have talked with one, and 
consequently is classed as a spiritualist. 

KIND FRIEND, THINK FOR YOURSELF AND 
USE GOOD JUDGMENT. 

Jehovah sent the Christ to earth. 

To show the sinner a new birth. 

Let us obey and receive it then, 

Be converted and born again. 

Then spirits to see is no more strange 

Than when we are in worldly range ; 

The mysteries of the Bible found 

Seem easy as we them expound. 

The Holy Ghost will teach to you, 

Things that are found in the Bible too. 



CHAPTER VI. 

MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 

Under the law of Modern Spiritualism it is possible 
for a man who is yet in earth life to converse with any 
spirit that ever dwelt in the flesh upon this earth. 

Many ancient spirits existed before this world was 
created. Some of them, having been incarnated for 
God Jehovah, lived in this world as human beings; 
now, therefore, after having passed into the spirit land 
again, they are able to assume bodily form and appear 
on this earth under the law of Modern Spiritualism. 

THE FREE SPIRITS ALLOWED TO MATERIALIZE. 

Modern Spiritualism belongs to the Indian. No 
man in earth life can ever make a success of Modern 
Spiritualism without the Indian, for it was he who al- 
lowed the free spirits to materialize. Some of the oth- 
er gods allowed their spirits to materialize at times, 
while the free spirits were never permitted to do so 
except through the Indian who allowed them to go 
through. There are not many of this tribe, the Indians 



MODERN SPIRITUALISM I4I 

who belong to a God, hence, they are called "free 
spirits." 

THE ORIGINATION OF THE INDIAN. 

The Indians, not having a redeemer, are not con- 
demned as are the other free spirits. They originated 
from the seed of Abraham by his wife Hagar. In 
those days the greatest honor a woman could bestow 
upon a man was to present him with a child. Sarah, 
being much grieved over her barrenness, asked Abra- 
ham to take Hagar, her maid, for his wife. To this 
Abraham consented. After a length of time, Hagar, 
having conceived, gloried in the thought that she was 
more blessed than Sarah and began to despise her mis- 
tress. 

At the very beginning of the trouble which was man- 
ifesting itself between the women, Sarah dealt hard 
with her maid, causing her to flee into the wilderness. 
There the angel of the Lord spake to Hagar telling her 
to go back and humble herself before Sarah. The 
angel also promised here these words : 

Gen. 16: 



I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall 
not be numbered for multitude. 



142 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

and furthermore said : 

12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be 
against every man, and every man's hand against 
him: 

Gen. 16 : 12. 

ABRAHAM SENDING HAGAR INTO THE WILDERNESS. 

It was but a short time after her return that Hagar 
brought forth her first born whom Abraham named 
Ishmael. 

After all the bitterness between his wives had been 
allayed, Abraham was also blessed with a child from 
Sarah. Having named him Isaac, Abraham prepared 
a feast to celebrate the day of the new son's weaning. 
At this occasion Hagar and Sarah quarreled again, for 
Sarah had seen Hagar's child mocking. This of 
course, enraged Sarah, and, having brought her com- 
plaint before Abraham, caused him to expel Hagar 
from their home. Giving her a bottle of water and 
some victuals, Abraham sent Hagar and her son out 
into the wilderness. There Ishmael became an archer. 

It is from this wife Hagar, that the Indian origi- 
nated. Abraham received this promise: 



MODERN SPIRITUALISM I43 

And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. 

Gen. 22 : 17. 

The worldly people often make remarks about the 
story of Abraham and his wives. Allow me to say to 
such, that before Adam and Eve sinned, they were 
naked, yet were not ashamed, but after their trans- 
gression they were ashamed. Abraham was a man of 
God Jehovah. When man is converted to Israel, the 
worldly shame leaves him, and he is put back into the 
same state that Adam and Eve were before the fall. If 
a man is converted to Israel, those old stories of Abra- 
ham and Lot are not strange any more. 

the Indian's authorities. 

Jehovah established his word when He promised 
Abraham 

And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies : 

Gen. 22: 17. 

There is no God, except Jehovah, who can overrule 
an Indian in the spirit land. Therefore, man in earth- 
life can never make a success of Modern Spiritualism 
without an Indian manager, generally called cabinet- 



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control, or, main-guide, for they are the only ones who 
can keep out all other influences — evil influences. The 
Indians have more confidence in each other than any 
other society within the spheres. . The class succeed- 
ing the Indian in this respect is the Free Mason Order. 
Of course, the Jews, called the children of Israel, the 
seed of Abraham, or, God's chosen people, also have 
confidence in each other. But because they do not 
meddle with Modern Spiritualism, they have no way 
of showing this confidence, they are simply waiting. 
There are not many Jews in the spirit land who prac- 
tice Modern Spiritualism, or who belong to other Gods* 

THE GENTILE'S DAY CLOSING THE INDIAN^ DAY BE- 
GINNING. 

Jehovah had much patience in educating the Jews, 
and after they had been well established there was no 
nation which could defeat them in battle. When they 
did lose the victory, we will find, after close investiga- 
tion, that they were not in close relationship with Je- 
hovah at that special time. They finally drifted so far 
away from their religion, that they disowned the Christ 
of their God. After they had despised Christ, their 



MODERN SPIRITUALISM I45 

day was ended and the Gentile's day began. The In- 
dian's day is now at hand. 

The Jews, their day has long since past, 
The Gentile's day is closing fast; 
The Indian's day has come at last. 
The story'll be told when all is past. 

The Jews were led to the promised land, 
While God assisted with mighty hand; 
So far they strayed from His command, 
Christ seemed a stranger in their land. 

Christ for the Gentiles long had wept, 
And gave a law some would not accept, 
To ask the Savior whither to step. 
The day now dawns, the floor unswept. 

The Indian's day is now at hand, 
And if they obey the Lord's command 
They'll strike their blow from spirit-land. 
Come all who will and join our band 

When the Jews' day came to a close, it was not that 



I46 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Jehovah completely forsook them, but it was the com- 
ing of Christ, which was not really the beginning of a 
new law, but rather the fulfillment of the old. The old 
law was, that no one but the prophets should receive 
the Holy Ghost; while in the new law it is possible for 
any individual to have this divine gift. This new law 
is what the Jews did not accept, consequently, their 
day ended, for Jehovah was no more content with the 
worship of the old law. Nevertheless, some of the 
Jews accepted this new law which was also given to the 
Gentile as well as to his Hebrew neighbor. But now 
the Indian's day is drawing nigh, and darkness hangs 
over the throne of the Gentile. This is not a change of 
the law concerning the Indian's day, it is simply a ful- 
fillment of what had been decreed long since. Christ 
said : 

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this 
fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my 
voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 

St. John 10 : 16. 

This passage of Scripture has reference to the In- 
dian. The reader may wonder how I know that it 
speaks of that particular class. The Spirits of Israel, 



MODERN SPIRITUALISM 147 

with whom it is possible for any man in the proper con- 
dition to talk, have told me so. Anyone may receive 
the same information if they abide by the law of Israel. 
Each God has his law. 

Christ also said : 

13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, 
he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not 
speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that 
shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

St. John 16: 13. 

showing to us that it is possible for man to know defi- 
nitely just what will come to pass, for the "spirit of 
truth" will reveal things to come. 

the Indian's day in the spirit land. 

Before I continue with my discussion of Modern 
Spiritualism, I will try to present to the reader some 
idea of what I mean by the different laws of existing 
substances. For instance, a blacksmith wishes to weld 
a piece of iron. He must first heat the iron to the 
proper degree or he will fail in the welding ; this is the 
law which governs the iron. If you wish to freeze 
water, you must apply to it the required temperature. 



I48 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

If a man wishes to sneeze he must put himself in the 
proper condition, so as to produce the sneezing. Ev- 
erything that is placed within the seven spheres, called 
heaven, must have its proper law, or condition. There- 
fore, Modern Spiritualism must necessarily have its 
proper condition, or law. 

The beginning of the law was principally under the 
dominion of the Jews, until later, as the fulfillment of 
the law came, it fell into the hands of the Gentiles, 
while now it is becoming the sceptre of the Indian who 
will surely have his day in the spirit land. The reader 
might wonder why I indulge in such frequent repeti- 
tion. The answer is in the following question, "do you 
fully understand what is meant by the Indian having 
his day in the spirit land?" Well, it is the fulfillment 
of the promise which Jehovah made to Abraham. 

WHERE SPIRITS GET THEIR STRENGTH. 

Here are some of the laws of the beginning of Mod- 
ern Spiritualism which are essential if you wish to 
speak with the modern spirits. 

Every human being has a magnet which encircles his 
body at a distance of about one foot to three feet away. 



MODERN SPIRITUALISM 1 49 

It is about one foot thick in the inner part of the circle, 
increasing to almost three feet to the circumference 
where it weakens. From the magnet the spirit receives 
its strength. This magnet is matter, and this matter is 
material. All spirits that appear under the law of 
Modern Spiritualism to make themselves known, use 
the magnet, for spirits must have material to handle 
material. A spirit cannot handle substance without 
having some of the like stuff with which to handle it. 
To give this magnet to a spirit you must put yourself 
in a passive condition. For illustration ; allow a cater- 
pillar to crawl up your arm. If it assumes a certain 
condition, some of its hair will fall off, penetrating the 
skin. Then, if it again changes its condition, it is 
almost impossible for anyone to pull a single hair off 
its back. 

If any individual is in the proper condition as to 
cause their magnet to flow to the spirit, the spirit is 
then enabled to assume its body for manifestation. 

Another helpful illustration is the porcupine. You 
may throw sticks at the creature while it sits in the tree, 
and, if it assume a certain condition, it will throw some 
of its quills at you. But should you succeed in catch- 



I50 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

ing your spined enemy, it would be very difficult for 
you to remove one of the remaining prickles. 

If a man possess the knowledge, he is able to let his 
magnet either flow to a spirit, or retain it ; and it is dif- 
ficult for a spirit to take it from him. For this reason 
the people in earth life sit in a circle, thereby causing 
their combined magnets to flow to one person who is 
called the medium. The magnet then passes through 
the medium for refinement, after which the spirit is able 
to use it. 

Each society of spirits must have its own special con- 
dition. While one spirit makes itself known under a cer- 
tain condition, it is utterly impossible for another spirit, 
under the same condition, to make itself known at all. 

Perhaps the reader may think that Modern Spiritual- 
ism is what some people call spiritual knowledge. It is 
not. It belongs to the worldly knowledge. 

ORIGINATION OF THE DIFFERENT DOCTRINES. 

The question often arises, "why do mediums differ 
concerning spirit life?" Some say we progress "there" 
just as we do over here, without any distinct change. 
Others say, they look for a judgment day. Very many 



MODERN SPIRITUALISM I5T 

believe that business will be carried on over there just 
as in this world. Thus, there are various doctrines, 
each originating from the different guides which the 
spiritualists have. These guides belong to different 
Gods. 

Until now, some of the Indians were only used by the 
different gods as general overseers, while those spirits 
which belonged to other gods were working in the 
"shade." Shade here means, in the dark, or, under- 
handed — pretending to work at one thing, while, at the 
same time, accomplishing another. A deceitful laborer 
pretends to be doing some special work, while, in truth, 
he is working at something entirely different. The use 
of this word "shade" originated in the spirit land. 

Here is what brings about these different doctrines. 
All those that work in the "shade" are spirits that be- 
long to some gods, but they are ashamed to own which 
gods they follow ; and if they wish to control a medium, 
they tell their Indian manager that they are a free spirit* 
thereby using the innocent Indian to accomplish their 
work. The teachers whom those gods have in earth 
life generally teach that it is impossible to commune 
with a deceased friend. 



152 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GOI 

When Jehovah began to bring Modern Spiritualism 
into fuller knowledge, many of the other gods sent 
forth laborers to work for them in the "shade/' for they 
saw that people were becoming enlightened from the 
spirit land. They, of course, delighted in keeping their 
spirits, as well as their people in earth life, ignorant. 
Generally, the free spirits are honest and teach the best 
they know about the spirit land. 

As the Jew's day has past and the Gentile's day is 
closing, the Indian's day is coming with steady rapidity 
as they grow in knowledge. Therefore, they are "clos- 
ing-in" on all those spirits that are working in the 
"shade." 

AH this may seem strange to the reader, yet, all I 
can say is, prove it for yourself by conversing with the 
spirits that are educated in the spirit knowledge, and 
see if they do not tell you the identical things which I 
have written. 

THE WOMAN'S DAY COMING. 

It is spoken by the prophet Joel 2 : 28-29 — 

28 If And it shall come to pass afterward, that I 
will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons 



MODERN SPIRITUALISM 1 53 

and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men 
shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions : 
29 And also upon the servants and upon the hand- 
maids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 

Thus far, throughout the day of the Jews and the 
Gentiles, man has had the preference. Henceforth 
woman shall be esteemed among the Jews and the Gen- 
tiles, while the Indians will have their glory and honor 
in the spirit land. Women will exceed men in earth 
life; "And I will lengthen their days," said the Lord. 
Until the present time, women have had the disadvan- 
tage, but "it shall all be changed," says the spirit of 
Jehovah, "and I will see what they will do," says the 
Lord of Hosts. 

Note this, kind reader, should you doubt anything 
written in this book, always remember that you have 
the privilege of asking the spirit of Jehovah for proof. 
But be not deceived ; know that it is the spirit of Jeho- 
vah and not the spirit of some other god. 

Unexpected, like a roaring lion 
Who on this earth did make a show; 
Like a bird, some day will come flying 
And surely cut his path way low. 



CHAPTER VII. 

MEDIUMSHIP OF MATERIALIZATION UNDER THE LAW OF 
MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 

To materialize is to cause a spirit to return to a state 
of matter; or, in other words, if a spirit has material- 
ized, it has returned to a body of matter such as it had 
some previous time when it lived in earth life. 

WHAT CAN BE SEEN WITH THE PHYSICAL AND WHAT 
WITH THE SPIRITUAL EYES. 

Unless a spirit that is in spirit life has matter about 
it, the physical eye cannot behold such an one. There- 
fore, the spiritual eye alone is able to see such mys- 
teries. 

Man has a spiritual as well as a physical eye. With 
the one he sees spiritual things, while with the other 
he beholds the material. It is possible for a spiritual 
eye to see a spirit in spirit life without the spirit being 
clad with matter or physical form. 

The physical eye can only see physical things. It 
cannot see a spirit in spirit life, nor is it able to see the 



MEDIUMSHIP OF MATERIALIZATION 1 55 

spirit in the material body. It can only see the mate- 
rialized form. 

SITTING FOR MEDIUMSHIP. 

To begin for a materializing mediumship, you must, 
first of all, be honest in all your ways ; in so doing you 
will attract honest spirits, for each one receives spirits 
of his kind — such as enjoy his company. If you are 
in the habit of telling lies or drinking strong drinks or 
gambling or cheating or swearing, you will inevitably 
gather about you spirits that enjoy just such company. 
Of course, other spirits will possibly talk with you at 
times, but they cannot abide with you. 

Go to an adviser, or, more commonly called, a devel- 
oping medium. Such an one will undoubtedly tell you 
to do just what your guide has commanded you. And 
if the developing medium is far enough advanced intel- 
lectually, he will tell you 'what you guide most desires. 
You must unhesitatingly do what your guide wishes to 
have you do, if you wish to ever make a success of 
Modern Spiritualism. 

Should you desire to gain the mediumship of ma- 
terialization without going to an adviser, gather a circle 



156 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

of about six or eight persons, and if the medium be a 
man, there should be more women in the circle than 
men. But if the medium be a woman, there ought to 
be more men than women. Always indicate the time 
when your meetings are to begin, thereby informing 
the spirit as to the opening of your services. Form a 
circle, seating the audience in couples, never allowing 
two men or two women to be seated side by side if it 
can be avoided. Having thus been seated and placed, 
join hands ; put both feet fully on the floor. The me- 
dium should also be seated with both feet on the floor 
and the hands placed on both knees. The light in the 
room should be turned low — about to a twilight. Ev- 
erything having been prepared, the meeting is ready to 
be opened. The medium now feels something move 
his head, and by this movement of the head the signs 
for answers are given. Should the head bow forward, 
it means yes ; sideways, it means no ; drawing the head 
back, means not ready to answer that question now, or, 
that you should not ask any such questions. Each 
question should be asked so that it may be answered 
with a yes or a no. 

Perhaps you would like to know how the cabinet 



MEDIUMSHIP OF MATERIALIZATION 1 57 

should be made; how the circle should sit; where the 
medium is to take his or her place ; etc., etc. Remem- 
ber this, you must do just what your guide says, or you 
will undoubtedly meet with failure in your attempt to 
learn Modern Spiritualism. Therefore, the above are 
some of the things which you must know, and some of 
the questions that you will be obliged to ask your spirit 
guide. 

Often while sitting for a Mediumship, especially the 
Materializing Mediumship, you are likely to be con- 
fronted with some such trouble as this ; your head will 
feel twice its natural circumference, or your limbs may 
seem double their ordinary size, and very often you will 
think that your body has in some way been torn as- 
sunder. This generally occurs when you are about to 
go under control. The cause of those expansive feel- 
ings is, your current does not flow to one spirit alone, 
but you throw a double or triple current; your in- 
fluence goes to more than one spirit. 

Spirits are very jealous of each other, and for that 
reason one pulls one way while the other pulls in the 
opposite direction, thus causing those peculiar feelings ; 
or, in other words, it is the lack of confidence in your 



158 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Spirit Guide, or the lack of confidence in a Spirit, that 
causes a broken current which is the origination of such 
trouble. To avoid all such you must put all confidence 
in your Spirit Guide when going under control. Such 
an one alone can let only such spirits through as he 
thinks fit. When you are ready to go under control, 
do not think, "I would like this one and that one and 
the other one to talk tonight ;" such thoughts will break 
your current and will cause trouble. Leave it all to 
one Spirit, who will permit other spirits to manifest, 
such as the conditions may allow, and you will not have 
those enlarging feelings to contend with. 

As this earth is surrounded by air, so is there a mag- 
net encircling our bodies. 

The more distant from the earth, the lighter the air 
becomes. The further away from the body, the lighter 
is the magnet. The extreme circumference of the 
magnet is about three feet distant from the body. 

The individuals composing a circle must put them- 
selves in a passive condition before the magnet is able 
to flow and pass to the medium. The idea of having a 
medium is to center the current. Generally, the cur- 
rent passes through the medium in whom it is refined 



MEDIUMSHIP OF MATERIALIZATION I59 

for the spirit's use, enabling the spirit to build a body 
for itself. 

Should anyone of the circle grow restless or become 
sick to the stomach, the current becomes blocked, ag- 
gravating the sickness in the afflicted person. Where- 
as, if the current had been permitted to flow through 
the circle, the hindrance would not have been caused. 
It is well to begin a song or join a hearty laugh to bring 
about good results. By asking the spirit guide, the 
circle is seated and regulated to his desire, thus bring- 
ing about the best conditions. 

CABINET UNNECESSARY. 

It is not essential to have a cabinet. Modern Spirit- 
ualism may be performed without such a device, pro- 
viding all are mediumistic people. One special reason 
why the spirits desire to have a cabinet is, that they do 
not like to "build up" in the audience. At times they do 
build up outside, providing they have enough magnet 
in the cabinet. Under like conditions they also disap- 
pear outside of the cabinet. It is much easier for them 
to materialize, as well as dematerialize in the cabinet, 
than it is to do so on the outside. 



l6o JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

It is not absolutely necessary for a medium to go into 
the cabinet, he may take his place wherever the spirit 
guide directs. 

The first form I ever materialized under the law of 
Modern Spiritualism, was brought forth in the opposite 
end of the room, directly opposite the cabinet. 

TRANCE NOT NECESSARY. 

It is not necessary for a medium to go into a trance 
in order to materialize a spirit. The only reason why 
the spirits prefer to have the medium in a trance is, that 
they might not be aware of what is happening or being 
said in the circle; such as the remarks of the skeptics 
present. If a medium takes notice of everything about 
him, it troubles the spirits. If he could place himself 
in such a condition as not to pay heed to anything that 
may happen in the room, the spirits could then mate- 
rialize as well as with a trance medium. 

LIES FROM THE SPIRIT-LAND. 

Many people in this earth-life seem to think that ev- 
ery message which comes from a spirit is true and 
honest. Such people, I dare say, are not aware of their 



MEDIUMSHIP OF MATERIALIZATION l6l 

own ignorance, for there are liars in the spirit-land as 
well as in this world. If a man has been a liar while 
in earth-life, he continues to use the same false tongue 
after he has passed out of the body and gone into the 
spirit life until he reforms. 

Should the medium announce that a certain spirit 
named "John" wishes to talk with his brother "J oe " 
who is in the circle, and should it be found that the 
latter had no brother in the spirit-life by that name, it is 
simply to be taken as a mistake. It is because of cases 
like this that investigators often denounce Spiritualism. 

Understand, dear reader, that the spirit-guides do 
not know all the spirits in the spirit-land. Very often 
they must depend upon the honesty of other spirits. 
If a spirit should say he is your brother, and you know 
you have no brother who has gone to the beyond, do 
not denounce spiritualism on account of that one spirit 
liar. Would it be wise to denounce pure gold because 
some man had made a counterfeit? If there had been 
no genuine gold dollar in existence, the counterfeit 
would never have originated; and if there were no 
reality in spiritualism, would it be possible for a coun- 
terfeit to exist ? 



l62 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

MANIFESTATIONS FROM THE CABINET. 

As to the appearance of the spirits in a materializing 
circle. After the room has been somewhat darkened, 
you will at first see white mists around the cabinet or 
about the medium. Then, as the conditions grow bet- 
ter, lights can be seen at various places ; perhaps an out- 
line of a face will appear, or a whisper heard, and, as 
the conditions become stronger and better, the forms 
will become more visible until at length they can walk 
out and talk with human beings. If the spirits have 
the proper conditions, they are able to make their ap- 
pearance in daylight or by a strong lamp-light. 

If the conditions of the circle are somewhat weak, 
darken the room. The better the conditions, the 
brighter the room may be. 



In materialization, we can talk with our relation; 

They can come from above. 

We can see them with our sight, if conditions are all 

right ; 
By the strength of our love. 



MEDIUMSHIP OF MATERIALIZATION 163 

Should you have a wife who's entered spirit life, 
And long to hear her say; 

The victory you may win, just as it since has been, 
For the law was made to stay. 

HOW TO HANDLE A MATERIALIZING MEDIUM. 

I will here try to give the reader some information 
as to how those within the circle should handle a me- 
dium in order to get good results. 

It is impossible for the spirits to manifest themselves 
unless they have the conditions. They must either get 
this condition from the circle or draw it all from the 
medium. It is therefore very essential that those com- 
posing the circle should put themselves in a passive 
condition, allowing their current to flow. They should 
also give all honor and respect to the medium, for un- 
less they do this, their current cannot flow to the me- 
dium. One who knows how to give a condition, al- 
ways shows respect for the one within the cabinet; 
therefore, dear reader, always give honor to your me- 
dium. 

I have had the experience of being asked to have a 
meeting at private homes. The members of these fam- 
ilies readily professed their belief in Spiritualism, and 



164 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

declared that they would give to me the best possible 
conditions; but when in company with church-mem- 
bers, these very people would express themselves as in 
favor of the church and its teaching. I must verily 
say, that conditions from such individuals cannot be 
used in a circle. It may seem rather strange to the be- 
ginner for me to use such an expression, but, neverthe- 
less, it is true. An honest skeptic gives a far better 
condition than a deceitful believer. A medium is so 
sensitive that he can readily tell by the current, or in- 
fluence, what kind of a condition you are giving. 

Some people say it is the fault of the medium if no 
good results are obtained, when in fact they themselves 
are to blame. You receive from the cabinet just to the 
extent and degree that you put into it your respect and 
influence. 

Investigators often wonder why the spirits which 
manifest themselves do not tell their names. Allow 
me to say, that, in the first place, there are many lying 
spirits in the spirit-land, that try to gain their way into 
the circle by telling falsehoods. 

I have had the experience of having about fifty spirits 
respond to the question of some one in the circle, "is 



MEDIUMSHIP OF MATERIALIZATION 165 

my brother here/' that they were the one asked for. 
This, of course, could not possibly be true; one only 
could be the brother. How then was I to pick the 
right spirit from so many that answered, since it is 
generally true, that the one which makes the greatest 
commotion is the biggest liar. Therefore, the spirits 
are not allowed to speak as freely as they wish, unless 
the spirit-guide is acquainted with them. 

No one knows with what a medium has to contend, 
until they themselves become a medium. A child 
knows nothing of a mother's care until they themselves 
have become the mother of a family. 

It may be asked, "what spirits are they that try to 
break up a circle?" They are the enemies of God Je- 
hovah. Various methods are used by these spirits to 
accomplish their work of destruction. Some will con- 
duct a circle in a very honest way and tell everything 
quite "straight," thus gaining the confidence of the 
people, after which they begin to tell some shameful 
lies, and, if possible, discourage the beginner of Modern 
Spiritualism. For these and many other reasons 
which I will not speak about now, spirits are not al- 
lowed to speak as freely as they wish. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

TABLE-TIPPING MEDIUMSHIP UNDER THE LAW OF MOD- 
ERN SPIRITUALISM. 

Secure a table about three feet square. A poplar or 
pine wood table of light construction is most desirable. 
It should be free from paint or varnish, and as few 
nails as possible should be used. Having thus pre- 
pared the table, gather around and lay your hands flat 
on the top of it. If there are but two persons in the 
circle, sit opposite each other. If there are four, place 
one on either side. Should there be more than four, 
crowd them around the best way possible. Being 
seated and arranged, begin some familiar song. All 
should join in singing. When the magnet begins to 
flow, you will feel the current in your hands similar to 
a current of electricity. Many investigators seem to 
think it is nothing but an electric current. Allow 
me to say to the beginner, that many have sat at the 
table when the table actually tipped ; then after spend- 
ing some time investigating, they found that it was 



TABLE-TIPPING MEDIUMSHIP 167 

something of intelligence and not mere electricity, for 
electricity has no definite intelligence. 

If you give table-tipping a thorough investigation, 
you will find that that which tips the table is a thing of 
intelligence; it can count, spell, answer, etc. Very 
often investigators say, that the table does not always 
tell the truth. Very true, sometimes it does not; but 
remember, as I have said before, there are lying spirits 
in the spirit-land just as there are people on this earth 
who are afflicted with the same malady. Everybody 
attracts spirits of their kind. 

After the current flows and the spirits get strength 
enough to shake the table, they then begin to answer 
questions. You must first of all tell the spirits how 
many taps for "yes," and what sign for the answer"no." 
Or, have one tap for "no" and three taps for "yes;" 
two taps meaning not ready to answer that now, while 
four taps are for the medium. The person who asks 
the questions should be absent from the table at the 
time the question is being asked. 

A very helpful w r ay is to write the questions on a 
slate, after which the writer should say, "kind spirit, 
can you answer this question?" If there is no answer, 



l68 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

the conditions are not favorable or there is no spirit 
that wishes to answer the question. 

IMPRESSING THE MEDIUM 

The best way to become a table-tipping medium is 
to sit at the table until the spirits are able to give you 
impressions, which they readily do. The impressions 
are for the purpose of answering questions. If a ques- 
tion cannot be answered by yes or no, the spirit im- 
presses the medium and tells him what to say. After 
the medium has developed sufficiently so as to be able 
to be impressed by a spirit, he should absent himself 
from the table. Should the conditions be favorable 
and the spirit get enough strength, no one need to 
touch the table. If the circle wishes to disband, they 
should first ask the spirits what to do before leaving. 
Remember that you must obey the guide, or your en- 
deavors to learn Modern Spiritualism are in vain. 

THE RAPS FOR THE ANSWERS. 

At times the spirit would rather rap on the table 
than tip it. By rapping, questions can be answered 
more promptly. 



TABLE-TIPPING MEDIUMSHIP 169 

Some sitters tip the table to suit themselves, which 
perhaps is mostly selfishness, and selfishness is as harm- 
ful to a successful table-tipping circle as is jealousy, 
which ought not be tolerated at such a meeting as this. 
If one person should receive a message from a spirit 
friend, the others ought not envy that one because of 
the favor bestowed upon him. Jealousy breaks the 
current and will trouble the spirits. All attention 
should be given to the one who is receiving the mes- 
sage. 

Honor the spirits and they will honor you. Respect 
the medium and the spirits will respect you; for the 
medium is the tool with which the spirits deliver their 
messages to earth. 

It is well to have an Indian for a guide, for Modern 
.Spiritualism belongs to the Indian, who is a descendant 
from Abraham and the maid Hagar. 

MESSAGE FROM THE SPIRIT-LAND. 

The Indian spirit towards the earth did bend, 

And surely he meant it true, 
Thus said, work for us my earth-life friend, 

And we will work for you. 



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If you should be ashamed of us, 

We must be ashamed of you ; 
When skeptics laugh and make a fuss, 

And you join with them too. 

Be patient then, my earthly friend, 

While we do work with you ; 
We'll join you in love, and you defend, 

We'll help to guide you through. 

If spiritualism you shun while in a crowd, 

And attend a seance would, 
Remember you come with the same old shroud ; 

Can the results be good? 

We'll never, my friend, be ashamed of you, 
Though you're blind or lame from birth, 

Should you be red, black, white, or blue, 
We'll give you what you're worth. 

HOW TO HANDLE A TABLE-TIPPING MEDIUM. 

First of all, great honor should be given to the me- 
dium. Many sitters may wonder why such honor 
should be bestowed upon that one. If you do not re- 



TABLE-TIPPING MEDIUMSHIP 171 

spect the medium, your current will not flow to the 
medium's spirit, called "Guide." Therefore, respect 
should be given to the medium so the Spirit may get 
the current. Whichever spirit receives the current, 
that one can answer the questions. To avoid all er- 
rors, the current must go to the one spirit, called the 
medium's guide. 

To illustrate : If you had a load of hay and it were 
as much as a team of horses could pull, you could eas- 
ily prevent the animals from pulling the load by put- 
ting a much less power on the opposite end of the truck. 
So it is when a spirit has scarcely enough strength 
from the circle to answer the questions, and if another 
spirit should get enough strength from some one in the 
circle to prevent the former from answering the ques- 
tions, then there is likely to be trouble in the meeting. 

To prevent the current from running to different 
Spirits, honor must be given to the medium. If the 
spirit that is supposed to control the circle gets the cur- 
rent, then you may have the questions answered 
promptly. 

Should the circle get confused, that is, should differ- 
ent spirits obtain the current, a good way to bring har- 



172 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

mony is to sing a song which all in the circle are able 
to sing. A music box is very advisable in such in- 
stances as these. 

In the circles which I hold, a prayer is never forbid- 
den, especially a secret prayer. To repeat the Lord's 
Prayer will harmonize the circle. 



CHAPTER IX. 

THE MEDIUMSHIP OF CLAIRVOYANCE UNDER THE LAW 
OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 

To develop for the mediumship of clairvoyance you 
are not obliged to have a circle, vou can accomplish it 
alone. 

It is advisable to choose but one spirit for a guide, 
which ought to be an Indian ; and after having selected 
such an one, you must do exactly as you are com- 
manded if you wish to make a success of Modern 
Spiritualism. 

The guide which you have receives the messages 
from the other spirits and delivers them to you. You, 
in turn, deliver them to the investigators. 

After the medium has advanced sufficiently, other 
spirits may talk with him as well as the guide. The 
reason it is well to have but one guide, is, because there 
are many spirits in the spirit-land who do not speak the 
truth. 

To develop for the clairvoyant mediumship you 
should sit in a room where no one might disturb you. 



174 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

Always occupy the same chair in the exact space of the 
room until you become at least partly developed, then 
you are not obliged to be so particular about these 
details. 

It is well to go to a test medium who has an Indian 
guide, for then you can get an idea who your guide is 
and what is proper for you to do. 

Get a good guide, make a clean beginning and you 
will no doubt make a good clairvoyant medium. 

There are many other mediumships besides Material- 
ization, Table-tipping, Clairvoyancy and Magnetic 
Healing, which will not be discussed in this book. The 
subjects which I have thus far briefly considered are 
too broad to explain in full in this edition; enough 
has been said for anyone to make a beginning. 

THE KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED TO HAVE THE ONE MEDIUM- 
SHIP COMPLETE. 

I will give the reader an idea of how much knowl- 
edge a man has when he has completed one of these 
mediumships. Take for example, the mediumship of 
Clairvoyancy. Some people who have no mediumship 
seem to have an idea that it does not require much 



MEDIUMSHIP OF CLAIRVOYANCE I75 

knowledge. From my own experience, I can conscien- 
tiously say, that if a man had passed through any 
American school, or graduated from the highest for- 
eign university, he would not have as much knowledge 
as is gained by having but one mediumship complete. 
Many mediums pride themselves on having one of 
these mediumships complete, when the fact is they have 
but one spirit for their guide who delivers the message 
to them in the best possible way, such as talking, giving 
signs, and in many other ways too numerous to men- 
tion. Anyone who has attained to this, calls himself a 
Clairvoyant medium. Understand, when you have one 
guide with whom you may have the privilege to talk at 
any time, that means that you have but one spirit of one 
special society; therefore, when a medium has gained 
the knowledge to talk with only one spirit of one so- 
ciety, what would he do if all the spirits of that same 
society should come at one time and demand his audi- 
ence? For, remember, that the spirit with whom the 
medium talks is but one of some particular society, and 
no doubt there are a thousand societies in one of the 
seven spheres in the old heaven, each requiring a differ- 
ent condition. 



I76 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

If some one who has the mediumship of Clairvoy- 
ancy should gain the knowledge which would enable 
him to talk with other spirits of the same society, it 
might seem as though he could talk with spirits in two 
different conditions. Often a spirit of one society can 
talk with you, while another spirit of the same society 
can not. 

Note, that in this book a society is called a condition, 
and a change of society is called a change of condition. 

ADVICE TO A CLAIRVOYANT MEDIUM. 

First, learn to talk with your guide, then with all the 
spirits in that guide's society and with all societies in 
the first sphere, also with all societies in the second 
sphere and so on until you have mastered the seven 
spheres. Learn to talk with all the Gods who are 
within these spheres. 

WHERE THE SPIRITS EXIST. 

There are scores of spirits that are not in the spheres. 
They were at one time in the flesh upon this earth. 
Besides these, there is a band of spirits outside of the 
seven spheres (the old heaven), which were never in 



MEDIUMSHIP OF CLAIRVOYANCE 177 

bodily form upon this earth. They existed before the 
old heaven was put into its present working order. 
There is also a God on the outside of the old heaven, 
who is Lord over these spirits which I have just de- 
scribed. He is called the God Jehovah. 

That the reader may better understand, I will ex- 
plain what is here meant. This God who is outside of 
the seven spheres, is really God over the entire seven 
spheres, and those spirits which are also outside of these 
spheres, are his followers. All spirits that come within 
these spheres are followers of some God of the same 
place, or, perchance become free spirits; for all free 
spirits dwell within the seven spheres. 

All spirits are allowed to come back to this earth, but 
they cannot all get away. 

THE CHANGE OF MEDIUMSHIP. 

The question may perhaps arise, "should a medium 
have but one mediumship complete?" If he had the 
mediumship of Clairvoyancy, but wished to attain to 
the mediumship of Materialization complete, so that 
any spirit, within or without the spheres, could ma- 
terialize through him, the mediumship of Clairvoyancy 



I78 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

would partly leave him because the distinct change 
from one mediumship to another is so great that it is 
hard to retain both. 

I am an inspirational speaker, inspired by the God 
Jehovah. I have the mediumship so thorough that it 
is possible for me to allow any other God to inspire me 
to speak, providing we both agree. I have the medi- 
umship of Clairvoyancy so complete that I can talk 
with any spirit which I have ever met within the 
spheres as well as with the spirits of the God Jehovah, 
who are outside of the spheres. 

I am fully conscious of it when I am being inspired 
to speak. The mediumship of Clairvoyancy leaves me 
for the time, for I cannot hold them both, and, while I 
see clairvoyantly I cannot be inspired to speak, for the 
change is too great. I have materialized a full form 
and know when I give the condition for materialization. 
All other mediumships leave me while I am under that 
influence. 

A DEVELOPING MEDIUM. 

Should anyone wish to be a developing medium, he 
ought to be able to give the conditions to any spirit of 
any society whatever. 



MEDIUMSHIP OF CLAIRVOYANCE 179 

On different occasions I have met people who wanted 
to be educated in some mediumship under the law of 
Modern Spiritualism, but they were controlled by a 
spirit of some other God who would not recognize its 
law. 

What I say is not imaginary or merely an opinion, it 
is real experience — things seen, heard, felt ; and I have 
substantial evidence to uphold all my statements. 

You may talk with any spirit, providing you give the 
proper condition , likewise you may converse with any 
God if you abide by the law of that God. 

I can give a condition to talk with any spirit that I 
have ever met within the seven spheres, or state the 
law of any God with whom I have ever come in contact 
within the spheres. I can also talk with two bands of 
spirits that are followers of God Jehovah outside of the 
seven spheres. 

Some spirits which were never in the flesh on this 
earth, were in existence before the world was created, 
that is, before the old heaven was put into its proper 
condition. Co-existent with these are also the Gods 
within the seven spheres, as well as the spirits within 
the old heaven that are not Gods. 



l8o JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

MUSINGS OF AN INDIAN GUIDE. 

Come one, come all, give to us no evil thought, 

To-night your friends from spirit-land we brought, 

Thus our labor we have partly wrought, 
For with a price, we were one time bought. 

Come you white man, be not afraid, 

Many a year in spirit-land we stayed ; 
In mud and mire we long did wade, 

We now see light ; 'twas always shade. 

Walk in the narrow way, not in the wide; 

Seek the true religion, not the worldly pride. 
Should evil influence with you abide, 

Call your Indian friend who's always at your side. 

I now rejoice, for day-break has begun ; 

And I am counted with the children, one. 
My labor that I do for you, to me it is but fun ; 

If ever you talk with spirits, remember me as one. 

HOW TO HANDLE A CLAIRVOYANT MEDIUM. 

First of all the conditions must be right if you want 



MEDIUMSHIP OF CLAIRVOYANCE l8l 

a good test. It must also be remembered that if you 
are ashamed of Spiritualism when in society, the spirits 
perhaps will be ashamed of you. To illustrate: If 
your neighbor had a number of visitors, and you were 
asked to join them in the evening's pleasure, but you 
were informed that they wanted you just to make fun 
of you, would you be pleased to go? If you would 
perhaps favor them with your presence, you would un- 
doubtedly have but very little to say. So it is with 
the spirits. Remember that thoughts are things. A 
thought towards a spirit is the same as a sounding 
word is towards a man in the body. 

Honor should be given to the medium, then the me- 
dium's spirits will honor you. 

I have had the experience of trying to give some one 
a test when they would say, "I would like to hear some- 
thing about my mother." Finally the mother would 
come forth and tell me that she had no news for them. 
So it can be seen that often a mother in the spirit-land 
refuses to talk with her children here in earth life. 
Likewise do brothers and sisters that are in the spirit- 
land refuse to speak or answer any questions at times. 
To remind you of an old saying : "When in Rome, do 



1 82 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

as the Romans do." This may be all right on this 
earth, but not among the spirits in the spirit-land. The 
spirits in the spirit-land are very jealous of each other. 
Allow me to use this expression, "they are easily 
hurt." 

I have often met with people who were church mem- 
bers, but according to the spirits' report they only had 
their name on the church-book for the sake of being in 
society; or, in other words, to hide their meanness. 
They cared not to obey the law of the God that gov- 
erned the church. 

Coming to me for a test, they thought to play the 
same trickery, and would perhaps make some shocking 
remarks, thinking no one knew what they had done. 
The result was, I had nothing to tell them, for theispirit 
told me nothing to say. It was not that the spirit did 
not know of anything to tell, it was simply on account 
of the remarks that they heard them make. 

Any free spirit or god that I have ever met holds to 
this law. "If you do not honor the man that I send, I 
will not honor you ;" this is a universal law among the 
gods and free spirits, only some are not as strict as 
others. 



MEDIUMSHIP OF CLAIRVOYANCE 183 

When going to a Clairvoyant medium for a test, it is 
well to set a time, giving the spirit that guides the 
medium a chance to look around and find some news to 
tell. Often, when investigators would like to know 
something about their relations, a spirit should be al- 
lowed some time to investigate, so as to be sure that 
they have the right one. There are many liars in the 
spirit-land, and many spirits that are trying to destroy 
Modern Spiritualism. 

When you are ready to receive the test, be careful 
not to throw an evil thought against the Medium, for 
that will trouble his Spirit Guide, and the more you 
trouble the Spirit Guide, the less you can expect in the 
test. The closer you abide by the conditions which the 
Medium requires, the better your results will be. 



CHAPTER X. 

MAGNETIC HEALING UNDER THE LAW OF MODERN 
SPIRITUALISM. 

Just as there are many laws under which man may 
talk with the spirits, so are there many laws concerning 
Magnetic Healing under the Law of Modern Spirit- 
ualism. 

I shall not go into thfc details of this subject, nor shall 
I discuss in this book the art of healing under the Law 
of Hypnotism. 

VARIOUS LAWS OF HEALING. 

God Jehovah, as well as all the other Gods, has his 
laws for healing; and the laws of the different gods, 
concerning the curing of diseases, differ just as the 
laws for worshiping differ. 

I shall partly discuss but one phase of Magnetic 
Healing under the law of Modern Spiritualism, for 
there are very many phases of Magnetic Healing under 
the one law. 



MAGNETIC HEALING I85 

HEALING OF NERVOUS DISEASES. 

Should the healer be sensitive enough, he could in- 
stantly discover the ills of the patient without asking 
any questions ; nevertheless, a man may be a healer and 

yet not be so sensitive as to be able to tell the disease of 
a patient. 

For the curing of nervous diseases it is well to take 
the patient by the hand, and when the current begins to 
flow into the patient, it signifies that both healer and 
patient are in the proper condition. If the latter does 
not receive the current it is the healer's duty to bring 
the patient into the proper conditions. There are vari- 
ous ways, too numerous to mention, by which you 
may bring the patient into the right condition. A con- 
versation will sometimes bring the desired result, while 
I have known instances where letting the hand of the 
patient go or merely rubbing the back of the hand has 
brought marked relief. When the patient is in the 
proper condition and the current begins to flow, the 
healer may help the patient for any nervous disease. 
That is the course I always follow for such ailments, 
especially for strengthening the whole system of the af- 
flicted person. Rheumatism, consumption, running 



1 86 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

sores, female complaints, lame backs, headaches, etc., 
require a different treatment from that of the whole 
system at one time. 

HOW TO BECOME A MAGNETIC HEALER UNDER THE LAW 
OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM. 

Go to a test medium who has an Indian guide ; for 
Modern Spiritualism belongs to the Indian. Or, go 
to a materializing circle where your guide will perhaps 
have a chance to materialize. A great deal of infor- 
mation is thus obtained. 

Another way is to gather a circle of about six persons 
of each sex (male and female), and if all are earnest 
seekers, many meetings will not have passed before the 
spirits will be able to answer the questions in one way 
or another, either by raps, shaking of the head, or some 
other convenient way. 

The best advice I can give if you wish to be a Mag- 
netic Healer under the law of Modern Spiritualism, is, 
as I have already said, to get an Indian for a guide. 
The next important step is to do what the guide says. 

EVERYTHING WHICH EXISTS WITHIN THE SEVEN 
SPHERES HAS ITS LAW. 

To illustrate the existence of such laws we may con- 



MAGNETIC HEALING 187 

sider the poisoning of any human being by inhaling 
the breath of a cat. In order to accomplish this, the 
animal must assume a certain condition under a special 
law by placing its mouth directly under its victim's 
nose so as to cause the breath of the sleeping one (for 
the person must be asleep) to come in contact with its 
own breath, thereby, under the existence of a special 
law, causing a deadly poison. I have seen a cat at- 
tempting to do this very thing, and therefore know of 
what I speak. 

As I have said before, there is nothing in the pages 
of this book but what I have seen and heard and actual- 
ly experienced, and have substantial evidence for it all. 

CONSOLING WORDS OF AN INDIAN GUIDE. 

Are you sad or ill in this earth life, 
And wished you were free, Oman; 
Then give us spirits an honest trial, 
We'll do just all we can. 

Honor our mediums on this earth, 
Whom we communicate through; 
They are the tools whom we employ 
To deliver a message to you. 



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Without the medium it is hard for us 
To speak from the spirit-land; 
Do not exclude them from the crowd 
If you wish our helping hand. 

HOW TO HANDLE A HEALER UNDER THE LAW OF MODERN 
SPIRITUALISM. 

First of all, show respect to the healer, or the healer's 
spirits will likely do nothing for you. 

The next thing is to abide by those laws which the 
healer requires, for each spirit has his law. 

From experience I have learned that a patient must 
be in the proper condition before you can do anything 
for him through the means of magnetic healing. Ap- 
parently, the one who can receive the conditions most 
readily is the one who has tried all doctors until he has 
lost all faith in them and their treatments. Such 
patients are ready and willing to abide by most any law. 
Remember, there are many laws under the law of 
Modern Spiritualism by which healing may be done. 
I shall not give any of these laws at this point of my 
discussion. I am trying to put forth the idea of how 
to handle a healer. 



MAGNETIC HEALING 189 

Oftentimes the remark is made, "I would not want 
3. spirit to treat me," or "I would be scared to death if 
ever I saw a spirit." Now think, dear reader, if you 
were a church-member and perchance would meet your 
God, would you be "scared to death," when, in truth, 
you pretend to love Him? Perhaps you often repeat 
these words, "0, how I love Jesas" There must be a 
strange love between you and your God. If you would 
"die" when beholding a spirit, what would you do if 
you were brought face to face with God ? Surely you 
must talk with the spirits before you can talk with 
God; for it says, 

22 All things are delivered to me of my Father : and 
no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and 
who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the 
Son will reveal him. 

St. Luke 10 : 22. 

Considering this passage of Scripture, man must first 
converse with Jesus the Christ before he is permitted 
to speak with God Jehovah. According to my judgment 
it would be a low and degraded god who would own 
that one for a follower who is "afraid" to see his God 
or ashamed to own him in public. 

Do not give the medium an evil thought, for remem- 



I90 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

ber that every thought which you throw towards the 
medium goes to the spirit, and a thought against a 
spirit is the same as a sounding word against anyone 
in the flesh. Allow me to impress this thought upon 
you, that thoughts are things. 

I have often heard this remark made, "they tried to 
heal me but they could not do it." There is no one 
likely to be healed against his will. If you go to a 
healer and set your mind to do all you possibly can to 
keep him from healing you, and then go about saying 
that there is no healer who can heal you, you are sim- 
ply exposing your ignorance. 



CHAPTER XL 

HOW TO COMMUNE WITH GOD JEHOVAH. 

God Jehovah is not bound within the seven spheres, 
or called the old heaven. 

He created heaven and earth, as well as the sun, 
moon, stars and planets. 

WAR AMONG THE SPIRITS. 

God's purpose in creating the old heaven was to 
establish a place for those who rebelled during the 
time of war among the spirits. This war was fought 
before the old heaven, called seven spheres, was cre- 
ated. Long after this war had ceased, Jehovah cre- 
ated Adam, the beasts of the field, and every living 
thing. 

Six long periods of time had passed from when the 
rebellion took place till the time when Jehovah had 
finished what is called the old heaven. These six 
periods were called days. A day was as long as it 
took the first light to make one round. This light, 



192 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

which was created on the first day, is not the sun 
which we see at the present time. 

WHO WROTE THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE? 

The question often arises as to the author of the 
Bible of Jehovah. I cannot definitely say who wrote 
this wonderful book, for all followers of the God Je- 
hovah helped in its completion. There are many Bibles 
which belong to other gods, for each god has his law. 
The most natural succeeding question would be, "which 
books belong to God Jehovah"? If there are any, how 
can it be proven that they were written by his follow- 
ers? The best answer I can give is, to abide by the 
laws of God and they will reveal these things to you, 
making clear to your mind which books are of God 
and who their author might have been. 

GIVING UP THE WORLDLY TREASURES. 

Should you wish to talk with the God Jehovah or 
the Holy Ghost or the Apostles in spirit life, this is the 
law which is required of us to follow : 

St. Luke 6 : 27-38— 

27 H But I say unto you which hear, Love your 
enemies, do good to them which hate you. 



COMMUNING WITH GOD 193 

28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them 
which despitefully use you, 

29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek 
offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy 
cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. 

30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of 
him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. 

31 And as ye would that men should do to you, 
do ye also to them likewise. 

32 For if ye love them which love you, what 
thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love 
them. 

33 And if ye do good to them which do good to 
you, what thank have ye ? for sinners also do even the 
same. 

34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to re- 
ceive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to 
sinners to receive as much again. 

35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and 
lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward 
shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the 
Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to 
the evil. 

36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is 
merciful. 

37 Judge not, and ye shail not be judged: condemn 
not, and ye shall not be condemned; forgive, and ye 
shall be forgiven : 

38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good 



194 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and 
running over, shall men give into your bosom. For 
with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall 
be measured to you again. 

Thus we have God's law in his own words. If we 
fulfill this, the Holy Ghost will talk to us. After the 
spirit of God Jehovah begins to commune with us, 
they will then teach us all things and explain any 
passage of Scripture that we do not understand. We 
shall then be taught the knowledge of Jehovah. 

Should you have a desire to be a follower of Je- 
hovah, do not think, that giving up all worldly treas- 
ures is all that is required. I would say, giving up 
the worldly treasures is the easiest part. You could 
easily give away all that you possess, such as money 
and land; you could also forgive your debtors — those 
who owe you something. But, you may say, how can 
a man live if he give up all he has? 

Let Scripture answer the question. 

St. Matt. 6:31-34— 

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall 
we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal 
shall we be clothed? 

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) 



COMMUNING WITH GOD 195 

for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need 
of all these things. 

S3 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his 
righteousness; and all these things shall be added 
unto you. 

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for 
the morrow shall take thought for the things of 
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

This passage shows plainly that anyone who Is a 
follower of Jehovah will never starve. 

It is required that you give up all worldly treasures 
and forgive your debtors, then the God Jehovah will 
add all things unto you. You dare not add it unto 
yourself, for it "shall be added unto you." 

The spirit will tell you what to do. You will not 
starve, for the God Jehovah will give you your daily 
necessities. Therefore it says: 

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: 

St. Matt. 6 : 34. 

The question often arises, "why may we not think 
for ourselves?" The reason may be found in the fol- 
lowing illustration. If an officer with an army of men 
were sent to fight against the enemy, and he would 
tell each soldier to do what he thought best, to fight 



I96 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

in whatever manner he wished, and run from the 
enemy when he saw he was in danger, how could he 
ever expect to win the fight? 

All these Gods are at war with one another. You 
will never find out what Jehovah wishes to accomplish 
until you become one of his followers. Neither will 
you know the purposes of any other God until you 
become a follower of one of those Gods. 

FREE MEN — FREE SPIRITS. 

By a free man is meant a man who lives on this 
earth and does not belong to any God. A free spirit 
is one that is in spirit land but does not belong to any 
God. 

When a man is controlled by a spirit at times, it does 
not necessarily follow that he belongs to the God of 
that spirit, for it is possible that a spirit can control a 
man at times, without that man being one of his fol- 
lowers; it depends upon the condition in which the 
person is. When a man is free, he is likely to be 
controlled by various spirits. The question may arise, 
"how can different spirits control a single human 
being if each spirit needs a different condition ?" One 



COMMUNING WITH GOD I97 

who has never had the knowledge as to changing his 
condition, often has some transformation of condition 
without being aware of it. 

To illustrate : One kind of wood will produce a heat 
which will bake bread properly, while another quality 
of kindling will not produce the sufficient heat. But 
you may warm yourself very comfortably by either 
fire, just as well as being able to warm yourself by 
means of steam heat. But steam heat will not bake 
bread properly. If an oven were made so as to be 
heated either by steam or different kinds of wood, 
could you, by placing your hand in the oven, tell what 
kind of heat is being applied if the heat were as in- 
tense for all the different appliances ? If you were edu- 
cated well enough to recognize the different heats, you 
could tell at once what kind of heat is being used to 
heat the oven. If you were not educated enough to 
tell the difference, you would say they are all alike. 
So it is with a man who is not educated to talk with 
different gods and spirits. He knows not when he 
changes his condition. 

It has often happened to me while I was developing 
different persons, that I would tell them that they gave 



I98 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

a better condition that night than they had given at any 
previous time. Invariably they would answer, "why, I 
was just the same as at other times, I felt no dif- 
ference." 

I have attended circles for development when some 
sitters would change their condition to such an extent 
that four different spirits had control of their current 
within the space of ten minutes. And if I would say to 
them that they change conditions too often, they would 
answer, "why, I am always the same, I never change." 
I would then continue to impress my statement upon 
them, but again the response would be, "tell me how 
to be different." The thought then came to me, how 
hard it is to teach man a language when it is impossible 
for him to understand what you are talking about. 

THE TEACHING OF CHRIST. 

I cannot teach the worldly man the knowledge of Je- 
hovah, for it is a wisdom that the world cannot re- 
ceive. If you obey the law of Jehovah, the Holy Ghost 
"will teach you all things." You will find some of the 
laws of Jehovah in St. Matthew, from the fifth to the 
eighth chapters; also in the sixth chapter of St. Luke. 



COMMUNING WITH GOD iyy 

By reading these chapters you will obtain a fair idea of 
what to do in order to receive the Holy Ghost. In St. 
John, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth chapters, 
you will read of what it teaches when you are worthy 
of receiving the Holy Ghost. 

He'll bravely stand before you, you think he is the stuff, 
You wonder if he got you, he'd treat you very rough. 
Stand boldly by and loudly "puff," 
You'll soon conclude he's good on the "bluff." 

The devil's horse, not by force 
To win his battle he will try ; 
The devil's horse, not by force 
Will run a bluff on the sly. 

Did you not know his cunning style 
You would stop and wonder awhile, 
How with his motions the people he riles 
And so easy he them beguiles. 

The devil's horse, not by force 
To win his battle he will try; 
The devil's horse, not by force 
Will run a bluff on the sly. 



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Thus many a preacher of today 
Has taken the example, they say ; 
And scares his people that they might stay 
And avoid the hell through endless day. 

The devil's horse, not by force 
To win his battle he will Icy ; 
The devil's horse, not by force 
Will run a bluff on the sly. 



CHAPTER XII. 

MANY GODS. 

There are many Gods in this universe; in fact, so 
great is their number that I cannot state definitely how 
many Gods really exist. I have had many opportunities 
to speak with several of these Gods, each having his 
different laws. The enmity which exists between these 
spirits is marvelous, for, while one God allows his peo- 
ple to do some special things, another God calls that 
very deed a great sin. 

DIFFERENT GODS SENDING DIFFERENT CHRISTS. 

Many of these Gods have vainly tried to imitate Je- 
hovah by sending one who was to be a Christ just as 
Jesus. Some have succeeded in this undertaking, while 
still other Gods, not endeavoring to mimic Jehovah, 
simply reincarnated their people, not promising them 
all power in heaven and earth. 

THE GODS USING EACH OTHER'S WORKS. 

It is a strange fact, that, while many Gods have 
undertaken to be represented by a Christ here on this 



202 JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 

world, they have often used the writings of God Je- 
hovah as a means of directing the minds of the people 
their way. Yea, one God has said, that out of the thir- 
teen spirits which he had sent back to this earth to ac- 
complish his work, three forsook him. 

Many of these very Gods with whom I have spoken, 
perform miracles of healing; they prophesy, speak in 
new tongues, and do many other wonderful things 
through their people whom they comfort, while on the 
contrary, other Gods do not allow their people to do 
anything of that sort. Some Gods, who, centuries ago, 
allowed their followers to commune with spirits, do not 
permit them to have any intercourse with spirits at this 
age of the world. Some, who forbade their people to 
talk with spirits in time past, do now allow them to 
commune with a departed friend. 

So many Gods there are in space, 
We wonder can it be ; 
We are too narrow while on earth, 
We cannot clearly see. 

We often wonder whence Gods came, 
Or whether they were born ; 



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Like little babes we're apt to say, 
"Why has the rose a thorn ?" 

Many a man has wondered long 
And troubled his weary head 
In studying out the time worn doubt, 
Whether man exists when dead. 

Do not weary your thoughts away, 
But take another route ; 
If you obey but God's commands 
Then you will find it out. 

Study Modern Spiritualism, 

For it's no sin nor shame, 

For you'll find that the Indian friend 

Will prove it just the same. 

Of course there are some other Gods, 
To you they teach likewise ; 
You may choose, but the question is, 
Which will win the prize? 



NOTE. 

Dear Reader : The few simple explanations which I 
have given in this edition are scarcely worthy of that 
name. But, in order to bring my knowledge before 
the public, I was obliged to make a beginning which I 
hope will be my introduction to the thinking people 
of this land and bring a wider knowledge of God Je- 
hovah, as well as the other Gods, to the minds of many. 

The contents of this book may seem strange to many 
who read it, for, to rightly understand, we must know 
Jehovah who has not many followers on this earth at 
the present day. 

How I groped my way through the dark and strug- 
gled towards the light I will not describe in this edi- 
tion. As I have said above, it is merely the first step — 
the first drop in the bucket. 

I have not discussed Phrenology at this time, al- 
though Phrenology is very essential to expound the 
Bible. With the understanding of this science the 
worldly man may grasp a better idea of the deep mys- 
teries of the Book of books. Not only Phrenology, but 
Hypnotism and Spiritualism must also be used to en- 



JEHOVAH AND OTHER GODS 205 

lighten the world in its earnest endeavor to know the 
truth. 

In the most prominent writings on Phrenology can- 
not be found many of the important points which I my- 
self have recently discovered. To properly present 
Phrenology to the public, it must be done with the sole 
aim of explaining the Bible to the worldly people of 
to-day. Explaining it in this way, a man with the 
knowledge of Phrenology, Hypnotism and Modern 
Spiritualism as I have it, could receive a wonderful 
understanding of the mysteries of God Jehovah. 

Phrenology, Hypnotism and Modern Spiritualism 
belong to the worldly knowledge. It is my hope to 
publish works on these three most interesting subjects, 
which I trust will be of vast importance and aid in ex- 
pounding the wonderful mysteries of God Jehovah to 
the worldly people. 

Baptism — Communion — Feet-washing — Sabbath-day 

— What a Dream is — What a Vision is — Noah and 
the Flood — The Whale swallowing Jonah — Joshua 
stopping the Sun — What Night-mare is — What causes 
Insanity — The Laws of other Gods, etc., are not dis- 
cussed in this book. 






206 .OVAH AND OTHER GODS 



If I have experiences which you have not, 

Do not grow angry my friend, 
Nor join with the crowd in a bloodshedding plot, 

And cause my earth life to end. 

Should you have experiences which I have not, 

Kind friend, count me not a fool ; 
Til promise to not join a bloodshedding plot, 

But be taught like a child at school. 



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